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SubjectRe: Warning: unable to open an initial console
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:05:24 -0400 (EDT)
"Steven A. DuChene" <linux-clusters@mindspring.com> wrote:

> 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.


on FC9 ....
here's what to do on a successful boot

mkdir /tmp/mnt2
mount /dev/sdaX /tmp/mnt
(where the X is your root device, if you use lvm, mount the lvm thing
there)
cp -a /dev/console /tmp/mnt/dev/console
umount /tmp/mnt2



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