Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:06:00 -0500 | From | Peter Staubach <> | Subject | Re: NFSROOT with NFS Version 3 |
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Christoph Pleger wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:57:16 -0500 > Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> wrote: > > >> On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 12:07:50PM +0100, Christoph Pleger wrote: >> >>> Warning: Unable to open an initial console >>> >> This usually means /dev/console doesn't exist. With many of >> today's distributions, this means you didn't boot with a >> initrd properly set up to run with your newly built kernel. >> > > The device /dev/console exists, but init/main.c tries to open it > read-write. As the nfsroot is mounted read-only, /dev/console cannot be > opened read-write.
If so, that is a bug. Whether or not the file system containing the device node is mounted read-only should not affect how a device can be opened.
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