mknod create failed on /dev/null, /dev/console

[Wong Kwok-hon]

On 6/17/05, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wong Kwok-hon wrote:
> 
> > On 6/17/05, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org> wrote:
> >> Am Do, den 16.06.2005 schrieb Wong Kwok-hon um 19:00:
> >>
> >> > I would like to get a fix on booting up the kernel and displayed as
> >> > follows:
> >> >
> >> > mknod create failed on /dev/null 17
> >> > mknod create failed on /dev/console
> >> >
> >> > My FC4 is upgraded from FC3...
> >>
> >> > Wong Kwok Hon
> >>
> >> Someone else here on the list fixed this kind of issue by updating the
> >> BIOS. Please see the list archive.
> >>
> >
> > But my motherboard is old and no bios update now.
> > The motherboard is Pentium 3 only.
> >
> >
> > Wong Kwok Hon
> >
> 
> I seriously doubt this has to do with bios update.  I see the same thing on
> my quite recent compaq r3000z.  I'm also pretty sure I didn't see it until
> some very recent update on FC4, like today.

My motherboard no bios update anymore due to outdate and no problem on FC3.
So is it the kernel problem?


Wong Kwok Hon