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Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 01:53:42 +0000
From: "young dave" <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
To: "Tom Strader" <tom.strader@xilinx.com>
Subject: Re: Warning: unable to open an initial console.
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Hi;
The errno "-6" is defined as:
#define ENXIO            6      /* No such device or address*/

You can try to retrieve the rootfs and add the necessary device file
to it, then reflash the rootfs.

I'm Sorry, I  have no embedded environment to test.

Regards
dave


2007/4/3, Tom Strader <tom.strader@xilinx.com>:
> Hi Dave,
> I'm not sure if I follow.  How do I use mknod with no console to use it
> from?  Can this be done in the init scripts or from u-boot?  Still
> learning so any help would be appreciated.
>
> I was able to trace the console opening to __dentry_open() in fs/open.c
> It does open(inode, f) but returns error -6 if this is any help.  I will
> try to trace it further to see what is wrong.
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
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