Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: boot disk problems | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | 10 Jan 1998 23:17:00 -0600 |
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>>>>> "PR" == Phil Rivard <rivardp@cyberus.ca> writes:
PR> I've been trying to make a boot/root disk. I've read and followed every PR> step in ramdisk.txt in the kernel Documentation. I 'dd' the kernel and the PR> ramdisk image to the disk correctly, I rdev'd correctly too. When I reboot PR> the kernel gets booted properly, the ramdisk mounts and the next message I PR> get is: unable to open an initial console. I'm no Linux expert, so I'm PR> sure that I screwed up somewhere, but I haven't found any info on this PR> problem.
You need a /dev/console. Because the kernel uses the open system call at boot up to open it.
Personally I think the need for this is a bad hack and someone was just lazy.
Eric
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