Re: 2.5.26 broken on headless boxes

Matthew Wilcox (willy@debian.org)
Thu, 18 Jul 2002 22:45:21 +0100


On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 11:42:18PM +0200, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE/CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE determines whether your VT can
> be created at all - maybe _CONSOLE suffix is misleading - without
> having at least one displaying device virtual terminals cannot be build.
> I always thought that CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE cannot be unset, but
> apparently it can...
>
> And BTW, when such configuration worked for you last time? It does not
> look to me like that it should ever work.

erm, 2.5.25 worked, and i didn't change the .config between 2.5.25 and
2.5.26 (just ran make oldconfig).

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