2004-02-01 02:46:01

by James Cloos

Subject: no console with current (bk) kernel

>From my .config:

# CONFIG_FB is not set
CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_HW_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y

and yet the boot fails with a complaint that it cannot open a
console, followed by a reboot. (Too fast to copy anything down.)

Box is p3 notebook, gcc is 3.3.2 (gentoo -r5).

What am I missing?

-JimC

2004-02-01 03:19:39

by Rafael Pereira

Subject: Re: no console with current (bk) kernel

On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 00:45, James H. Cloos Jr. wrote:
> >From my .config:
>
> # CONFIG_FB is not set
> CONFIG_VT=y
> CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
> CONFIG_HW_CONSOLE=y
> CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
> CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
>
> and yet the boot fails with a complaint that it cannot open a
> console, followed by a reboot. (Too fast to copy anything down.)
>
> Box is p3 notebook, gcc is 3.3.2 (gentoo -r5).
>
> What am I missing?
>
> -JimC


Did you enabled the:
CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y ???

try to enable it.

Rafael.