Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:57:16 -0500 | From | Joe Korty <> | Subject | Re: NFSROOT with NFS Version 3 |
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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.
If you don't want to create an initrd just to get yourself a properly set up /dev, then you need to put on the root's true /dev those few tmpfs /dev entries that might be used during the boot process:
mount --bind / /mnt cd /mnt/dev mknod null c 1 3 mknod console c 5 1 for i in $(seq 0 9); do mknod tty$i c 4 $i; done cd / umount /mnt
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