Re: 2.6.15 -- unable to open an initial console

From: Alessandro Suardi
Date: Sun Mar 12 2006 - 19:55:29 EST


On 3/13/06, Gaspar Bakos <gbakos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi, Jiri,
>
> RE:
> > have you been googling? Initrd? Old udev? What about /dev/console
> > before udev starts?
>
> A quick googling preceded the email, indeed, but it lead to confusion.
> I am using mkinitrd, indeed.
> I updated udev to the latest version (udev-071-0.FC4.2).
> I didn't get get the point what you meant by
>
> "What about /dev/console before udev starts?"

I guess Jiri means something like this

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=479931&r=7273347#r7273347

[yes, I am also using FC4 with Linus kernel and without initrd]

--alessandro

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