Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934166AbWKTN5Y (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:57:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934168AbWKTN5Y (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:57:24 -0500 Received: from flvpn.ccur.com ([66.10.65.2]:39095 "EHLO gamx.iccur.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934166AbWKTN5X (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:57:23 -0500 Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:57:16 -0500 From: Joe Korty To: Christoph Pleger Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: NFSROOT with NFS Version 3 Message-ID: <20061120135716.GA14122@tsunami.ccur.com> Reply-To: Joe Korty References: <20061117164021.03b2cc24.Christoph.Pleger@uni-dortmund.de> <1163780417.5709.34.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <20061120120750.1b1688e8.Christoph.Pleger@uni-dortmund.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061120120750.1b1688e8.Christoph.Pleger@uni-dortmund.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 905 Lines: 26 On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 12:07:50PM +0100, Christoph Pleger wrote: > Warning: Unable to open an initial console This usually means /dev/console doesn't exist. With many of today's distributions, this means you didn't boot with a initrd properly set up to run with your newly built kernel. If you don't want to create an initrd just to get yourself a properly set up /dev, then you need to put on the root's true /dev those few tmpfs /dev entries that might be used during the boot process: mount --bind / /mnt cd /mnt/dev mknod null c 1 3 mknod console c 5 1 for i in $(seq 0 9); do mknod tty$i c 4 $i; done cd / umount /mnt Joe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/