Re: Warning: unable to open an initial console

["Steven A. DuChene" <linux-clusters@mindspring.com>]

Well, according to the research I did looking for my initial
console error message on google it seems it is not a kernel
compile issue but rather an issue with the kernel needing to
find /dev/console before udev is run to create the various
device entries in /dev

To work around this I created an initrd file for my kernel
even though I have all the needed disk device drivers and
filesystems drivers in my kernel. Once I did that and put
it into place my new kernel booted up just fine.

-----Original Message-----
>From: "Steven A. DuChene" <linux-clusters@mindspring.com>
>Sent: Sep 30, 2009 1:05 PM
>To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
>Subject: Warning: unable to open an initial console
>
>Hmm, I tried various combonations of turning off the framebuffer
>support all together and then turning it back on with various
>drivers (nvidia or vesa vga) but still I get the same message
>about "Warning: unable to open an initial console."
>
>Anything else I should be looking at besides the graphics support
>part of the drivers section of the kernel config?
>
>Again this is a fairly standard PCChips A13G motherboard with
>NVidia chipset and AMD Athlon 3600+ CPU that works fine with the
>regular distro supplied FC9 kernel (2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64) and
>I have the x86_64 version of FC9 installed.
>