Kernel 2.6.10 Can't Open Initial Console on FC3

[Patrick Boutilier]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 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.

You don't "need" an initrd. The following site explains how to use udev 
without an initrd.

http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/udev/



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