Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:05:24 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Steven A. DuChene" <> | Subject | Warning: unable to open an initial console |
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Hmm, I tried various combonations of turning off the framebuffer support all together and then turning it back on with various drivers (nvidia or vesa vga) but still I get the same message about "Warning: unable to open an initial console."
Anything else I should be looking at besides the graphics support part of the drivers section of the kernel config?
Again this is a fairly standard PCChips A13G motherboard with NVidia chipset and AMD Athlon 3600+ CPU that works fine with the regular distro supplied FC9 kernel (2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64) and I have the x86_64 version of FC9 installed.
-----Original Message----- >From: "Steven A. DuChene" <linux-clusters@mindspring.com> >Sent: Sep 30, 2009 11:55 AM >To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >Subject: Re: newer non-distro kernels don't boot / unpack? > >OK, so after removing rhgb and quiet from the menu.lst >for this kernel the last few messages it prints are: > >sdb: >sdb1 sdb2 >sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk >XFS mounting filesystem sda3 >VFS: Mounted root (xfs filesystem) readonly on device 8:3. >Freeing unused kernel memory: 416k freed >Warning: unable to open an initial console. > >Since it does not seem to be reaching the init stage but >does seem to be finding the disks and mounting the filesystems >it is getting much further along than I thought. I guess >I have a problem with the console/terminal parts of the >kernel compile/configuration. > > >-----Original Message----- >>From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> >>Sent: Sep 30, 2009 11:47 AM >>To: "Steven A. DuChene" <linux-clusters@mindspring.com> >>Subject: Re: newer non-distro kernels don't boot / unpack? >> >>first remove rhgb and quiet.. that way you get at least the kernel log >>on the screen... to see where you get stuck. >> >> >>-- >>Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre >>For development, discussion and tips for power savings, >>visit http://www.lesswatts.org > >
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