Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966691AbWKUAKe (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Nov 2006 19:10:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S966880AbWKUAKe (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Nov 2006 19:10:34 -0500 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([64.65.253.246]:36245 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966691AbWKUAKd (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Nov 2006 19:10:33 -0500 Message-ID: <4562443C.2000005@tmr.com> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 19:11:40 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen Organization: TMR Associates Inc, Schenectady NY User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061105 SeaMonkey/1.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Pleger , Linux Kernel mailing List Subject: Re: NFSROOT with NFS Version 3 References: <20061117164021.03b2cc24.Christoph.Pleger@uni-dortmund.de> <1163780417.5709.34.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <20061120120750.1b1688e8.Christoph.Pleger@uni-dortmund.de> <20061120135716.GA14122@tsunami.ccur.com> <20061120173311.154e54a6.Christoph.Pleger@uni-dortmund.de> In-Reply-To: <20061120173311.154e54a6.Christoph.Pleger@uni-dortmund.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1208 Lines: 31 Christoph Pleger wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:57:16 -0500 > Joe Korty 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. That doesn't sound right, but hum... try mounting noatime, perhaps some additional checking is being done. Note: I'm pulling that out of the air, I haven't had a problem with it. Dare I assume that you checked the major,minor and all that good stuff? -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 - 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/