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From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
Subject: Re: no console with current (bk) kernel
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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.