Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:24:36 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Steven A. DuChene" <> | Subject | Re: Warning: unable to open an initial console |
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Well, according to the research I did looking for my initial console error message on google it seems it is not a kernel compile issue but rather an issue with the kernel needing to find /dev/console before udev is run to create the various device entries in /dev
To work around this I created an initrd file for my kernel even though I have all the needed disk device drivers and filesystems drivers in my kernel. Once I did that and put it into place my new kernel booted up just fine.
-----Original Message----- >From: "Steven A. DuChene" <linux-clusters@mindspring.com> >Sent: Sep 30, 2009 1:05 PM >To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >Subject: Warning: unable to open an initial console > >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. >
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