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From: James Simmons <jsimmons@transvirtual.com>
To: Rok Pergarec <rok@menuconfig.org>
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Subject: Re: Virtual terminal support
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> This is propably not so important but anyway. I think that the kernel
> should not complain about "unable to open an initial console" when
> "Virtual terminal" support is disabled in the kernel.

You do need stdin, stdout, and stderr which is related to /dev/console at
boot up. See main.c for what I mean. So you need some kind of console
built in. Try serial console and you need to tell your kernel you are
using serial console. See linux/Documentation/serialconsole.txt

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