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From: Duncan Sands <baldrick@wanadoo.fr>
To: "Downing, Thomas" <Thomas.Downing@ipc.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.5.62 "unable to open initial console"
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 10:13:48 +0100
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Please check out this thread: "2.5.62 fails to boot, Uncompressing... and then nothing"

You need to enable the console in your .config:

CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y

See the above thread for more details.

I hope this helps,

Duncan.

On Sunday 23 February 2003 22:11, Downing, Thomas wrote:
> Apologies of off-topic or screamingly idiotic or newbie :-)
>
> Booting 2.5.62 results in no console.  Looking at syslog shows:
>
> Warning: unable to open initial console
>
> I am not using devfs - /dev/console is there, char major 5, minor 1.
>
> Kernel was built without MDA or framebuffer support, without serial or
> parallel console, with CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE 1 and CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE 1.
>
> Problem has been present since at least 2.5.59.
>
> System runs normally if booted with 2.5.24.
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