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" <[email protected]>
>Sent: Sep 30, 2009 11:55 AM
>To: Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>, [email protected]
>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 <[email protected]>
>>Sent: Sep 30, 2009 11:47 AM
>>To: "Steven A. DuChene" <[email protected]>
>>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
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>>visit http://www.lesswatts.org
>
>
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" <[email protected]>
>Sent: Sep 30, 2009 1:05 PM
>To: [email protected]
>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.
>
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:05:24 -0400 (EDT)
"Steven A. DuChene" <[email protected]> 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