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Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:06:00 -0500
From: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>
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To: Christoph Pleger <Christoph.Pleger@uni-dortmund.de>
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Subject: Re: NFSROOT with NFS Version 3
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Christoph Pleger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:57:16 -0500
> Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> The device /dev/console exists, but init/main.c tries to open it
> read-write. As the nfsroot is mounted read-only, /dev/console cannot be
> opened read-write.

If so, that is a bug.  Whether or not the file system containing the
device node is mounted read-only should not affect how a device can
be opened.

       ps
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