From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: no console with current (bk) kernel
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 10:24:31 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bvik4v$kf9$1@news.cistron.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3fzdvy0te.fsf@lugabout.jhcloos.org>
In article <m3fzdvy0te.fsf@lugabout.jhcloos.org>,
James H. Cloos Jr. <cloos@jhcloos.com> wrote:
>From my .config:
>
># CONFIG_FB is not set
>CONFIG_VT=y
>CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
>CONFIG_HW_CONSOLE=y
>CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
>CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
>
>and yet the boot fails with a complaint that it cannot open a
>console, followed by a reboot. (Too fast to copy anything down.)
>
>Box is p3 notebook, gcc is 3.3.2 (gentoo -r5).
>
>What am I missing?
A root filesystem ;)
Looks like the kernel cannot open /dev/console. That means it
got deleted, or you're using the wrong filesystem as root,
or the kernel doesn't include the driver for your fs.
Mike.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-01 10:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-01 2:45 James H. Cloos Jr.
2004-02-01 3:20 ` Rafael Pereira
2004-02-01 7:33 ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2004-02-01 10:24 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg [this message]
2004-02-02 14:01 ` James H. Cloos Jr.
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