Kernel 2.6.10 Can't Open Initial Console on FC3

Arjan van de Ven arjanv at redhat.com
Fri Dec 31 08:09:45 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 01:11 -0600, Joseph D. Wagner wrote:
> The newly compiled kernel gets through everything OK including mounting the root file system as read-only EXT3.  However, it freezes on the very last line, which says:
> 
>      Warning: unable to open an initial console
> 
> If I switch back over to the kernel that came with the distribution, everything boots fine, so I'm assuming the problem lies in the way I configured the kernel.
> 
> I ran "find / -name genromfs" which found nothing.
> 
> I feel like an idiot for posting this.  I'm probably missing something obvious.

you most likely forgot to setup or enable the initrd. You need an initrd
in FC3.

(make install in the kernel tree will do this automatically for you, IF
you enabled it in the configs)
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