From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754880AbZI3RoS (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:44:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752361AbZI3RoS (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:44:18 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:36952 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751804AbZI3RoR (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:44:17 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:44:47 +0200 From: Arjan van de Ven To: "Steven A. DuChene" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Warning: unable to open an initial console Message-ID: <20090930194447.016e66c3@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <31532395.1254330324879.JavaMail.root@elwamui-rubis.atl.sa.earthlink.net> References: <31532395.1254330324879.JavaMail.root@elwamui-rubis.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.16.6; i586-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:05:24 -0400 (EDT) "Steven A. DuChene" wrote: > 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. on FC9 .... here's what to do on a successful boot mkdir /tmp/mnt2 mount /dev/sdaX /tmp/mnt (where the X is your root device, if you use lvm, mount the lvm thing there) cp -a /dev/console /tmp/mnt/dev/console umount /tmp/mnt2