[yocto] psplash wierdness

[Khem Raj]

Your initrd is missing /dev/null device it seems. You need to create it
dring build or some runtime mechanism
On Sep 23, 2015 8:10 AM, "Andy Pont" <andy.pont at sdcsystems.com> wrote:

> I have spent all morning fine tuning psplash on a PXE booting system using
> an NFS mounted root file system (all built with Yocto 1.8 for the
> intel-core2-32 machine) and all is exactly as I need.
>
> When I boot the system using an initrd of the same file system the first
> output from the init process is:
>
> /etc/init.d/rc: /etc/rcS.d/S00psplash.sh: line 28: can't open '/dev/null'
>
> Line 28 of S00psplash.sh corresponds to the call to /usr/bin/psplash to
> display the image to hide the init messages.
>
> Am I being a complete numpty (highly probable) or have I missed something
> about using an initrd?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andy.
>
>
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