linux-kernel - RE: Warning: unable to open an initial console.

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Date:	Mon, 2 Apr 2007 16:20:06 -0700
From:	"Tom Strader" <tom.strader@...inx.com>
To:	"Chris Wedgwood" <cw@...f.org>
Cc:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Warning: unable to open an initial console.

I checked /dev/ with U-boot and it shows the existence of /dev/console.

>From U-boot prompt:

$ ls /dev
 crw-------        0 Mon Apr 02 17:52:27 2007 console
 crw-r--r--        0 Mon Apr 02 17:52:27 2007 null
 crw-r--r--        0 Mon Apr 02 17:52:27 2007 zero

Also, I added a printk in the jffs2_add_fd_to_list() routine in
fs/jffs2/nodelist.c to print out the dirent adds and it shows console
being added as follows:

...
add dirent "var", ino #14
add dirent "usr", ino #13
add dirent "tmp", ino #12
add dirent "sys", ino #11
add dirent "sbin", ino #10
add dirent "proc", ino #9
add dirent "mnt", ino #8
add dirent "linuxrc", ino #7
add dirent "lib", ino #6
add dirent "home", ino #5
add dirent "etc", ino #4
add dirent "dev", ino #3
add dirent "bin", ino #2
VFS: Mounted root (jffs2 filesystem).
Freeing init memory: 76K
add dirent "zero", ino #70
add dirent "null", ino #69
add dirent "console", ino #68
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
add dirent "watchdog", ino #262
add dirent "udevstart", ino #261
add dirent "udevsend", ino #260
...

Any other ideas?
Thanks,
Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Wedgwood [mailto:cw@...f.org] 
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 3:49 PM
To: Tom Strader
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Warning: unable to open an initial console.

On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 12:04:56PM -0700, Tom Strader wrote:

> I have seen quite a few posts regarding unable to open an initial
> console, but my system seems to have the necessary things in place
> so I come looking for help.

your rootfs/initramfs/initrd is missing a valid working /dev/console

> VFS: Mounted root (jffs2 filesystem).

check /dev/ on this filesystem

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