no console with current (bk) kernel

no console with current (bk) kernel

[James H. Cloos Jr.]

>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?

-JimC

Re: no console with current (bk) kernel

[Rafael Pereira]

On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 00:45, James H. Cloos Jr. 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?
> 
> -JimC


Did you enabled the:
CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y ???

try to enable it.

Rafael.

Re: no console with current (bk) kernel

[James H. Cloos Jr.]

>>>>> "Rafael" == Rafael Pereira <flip-flop@pop.com.br> writes:

>> and yet the boot fails with a complaint that it cannot open a
>> console, followed by a reboot.  (Too fast to copy anything down.)

Rafael> Did you enabled the: CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y ???

No, I have CONFIG_FB is not set, so that option doesn't show up.

I do prefer to not use the FB on this box; I've had some bad
interactions between (radeonfb or vesafb) and X.

Rafael> try to enable it.

I will give a test w/ a fb, just to confirm whether that matters.

-JimC

Re: no console with current (bk) kernel

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

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.

Re: no console with current (bk) kernel

[James H. Cloos Jr.]

>>>>> "Miquel" == Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> writes:

>> and yet the boot fails with a complaint that it cannot open a
>> console, followed by a reboot.  (Too fast to copy anything down.)

>> What am I missing?

Miquel> A root filesystem ;)

Miquel> Looks like the kernel cannot open /dev/console.

That was it.  Box runs gentoo and is still using devfs; somehow
CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT got lost from my default config....

Thanks.

-JimC