Re: about FC3 2.6.10 ..........

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Thu Oct 06 2005 - 14:25:53 EST


On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 11:59:22 PDT, umesh chandak said:
> Hi,
> I have compiled a 2.6.10 on FC3.It
> compiled successfully .But When i boot to this option
> ,it gives me warning
> Warning: unable to open an initial console
> I know this is due to something genromfs . I also read
> about romfs in documentation .

(Not a kernel question - next time, ask on one of the Fedora lists at redhat.com)

Getting FC3 to run on on a romfs based system will be a challenge. In any
case, romfs has approximately zero to do with your problem.

What you've almost certainly done is forgotten to do a proper 'mkinitrd' -
FC3 and later need an initrd to get going in most cases. (Specifically,
your initrd image needs to have a /dev/console entry in the /dev on the
initrd filesystem, and you don't have one).

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