> I'm setting up (well, trying to I guess :-) ) a read-only OpenBSD system to
> run off a small CF card. Never having done this before, I found an
> excellent article written by Daniele Mazzocchio
> (
http://www.kernel-panic.it/openbsd/embedded/) to use as my guide. I had a
> few minor issues crop up, but have been able to work my way through them.
> However I finally got to one that I am stumped with.
>
> Basically once I boot of my new image, I am able to log into it on the
> serial console and things look ok. I can also ping the IP address of the
> unit, but when I try to SSH into it I get the following message:
>
> "Server refused to allocate pty"
>
> I've checked over my setup and all seems fine as per the instructions. I
> have all the pty* devices from /dev (which is RO) linked to /var/run/dev
> (which is in memory), so the problem cannot be that these devices are not
> writeable. (Actually /var is linked to /tmp/var, where the /tmp directory
> is in memory and populated by the image from a directory called /template.)
>
> Unfortunately this goes a bit beyond my current skill set, so if anyone has
> any suggestions I really would appreciate the help.
>
> BTW, in case it matters. I'm using OpenBSD 4.6 as both the host on which I
> setup the image and OS on the CF card. The card in question is a 64M
> SanDisk CF and is being plugged into a Soekris Net4801 box. None of these
> should make a difference, but you never know... :-)
>
> Thanks,
> Peter
