FC3T2 (new kernel) Warning: unable to open an initial console

Colin Charles byte at aeon.com.my
Thu Sep 23 07:20:23 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 16:35, avl wrote:
> After I download and compiled new kernel (linux-2.6.8.1.tar.bz2  
> + patch-2.6.9-rc2.bz2)as usual
> I have received the message at boot (Warning: unable to open an initial  
> console) and all stop.

Seems like https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=132862

You need to make sure UDEV_INITRD is being used, and USE_UDEV to "yes"
in /etc/udev/udev.conf

Recall that the dev package is no more, so its all udev controlled now
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