missing /dev/console in debootstrap --foreign, a bug or not ?

[Loïc Minier]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> What we found during work on this script is that the first stage of
> debootstrap --foreign does not create a /dev/console node, so qemu
> panics during boot if you ise it with a bare kernel image (it might be
> different if you use an initramfs that spawns udev though, which we
> currently not do for bootstrapping)

 What does exactly "panic"?  Can we fix some early userspace to not
 require /dev/console until the regular boot (without initramfs) starts
 udev which would create it?

> currently the script simply calls mknod to add the device file to the
> image, but we were discussing the issue in the mobile team and came to
> the conclusion that running debootstrap --foreign might indeed often be
> used like that. to me it is not clear if debootstrap --foreign shouldnt
> create /dev/console in any case.

 I think it wouldn't hurt if debootstrap's second stage would create
 /dev/console if it's required and missing, but I'm not sure whether we
 can actually start debootstrap's second stage.

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Loïc Minier