Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 02:13:08 -0500
From: Mike Houston <mikeserv@bmts.com>
To: "Joseph D. Wagner" <technojoecoolusa@charter.net>
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.10 Can't Open Initial Console on FC3
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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" <technojoecoolusa@charter.net> 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.
> 
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