Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 1 Jan 2005 02:13:08 -0500 | | From | Mike Houston <> | | Subject | Re: Kernel 2.6.10 Can't Open Initial Console on FC3 |
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Hello,
It is because you need to use an initrd. Your device nodes in FC3 are being managed by udev, and you otherwise won't have a /dev/console or /dev/hda at that stage of the boot. There's also the matter of LVM, if your root partition is a logical volume. Another reason you might need an initrd.
Your mkinitrd script in FC3 will take care of these matters for you.
Mike
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 23:00:14 -0600 "Joseph D. Wagner" <technojoecoolusa@charter.net> wrote:
> The newly compiled kernel gets through everything OK including > mounting the root file system as read-only EXT3. However, it > freezes on the very last line, which says: > > Warning: unable to open an initial console > > If I switch back over to the kernel that came with the distribution, > everything boots fine, so I'm assuming the problem lies in the way I > configured the kernel. > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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