Hello,
It is because you need to use an initrd. Your device nodes in
FC3 are being managed by udev, and you otherwise won't have a
/dev/console or /dev/hda at that stage of the boot. There's also the
matter of LVM, if your root partition is a logical volume. Another
reason you might need an initrd.
Your mkinitrd script in FC3 will take care of these matters for you.
Mike
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 23:00:14 -0600
"Joseph D. Wagner" <[email protected]> wrote:
> The newly compiled kernel gets through everything OK including
> mounting the root file system as read-only EXT3. However, it
> freezes on the very last line, which says:
>
> Warning: unable to open an initial console
>
> If I switch back over to the kernel that came with the distribution,
> everything boots fine, so I'm assuming the problem lies in the way I
> configured the kernel.
>