linux-kernel - Re: Warning: unable to open an initial console

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Message-ID: <20090930194447.016e66c3@infradead.org>
Date:	Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:44:47 +0200
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	"Steven A. DuChene" <linux-clusters@...dspring.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Warning: unable to open an initial console

On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:05:24 -0400 (EDT)
"Steven A. DuChene" <linux-clusters@...dspring.com> wrote:

> Hmm, I tried various combonations of turning off the framebuffer
> support all together and then turning it back on with various
> drivers (nvidia or vesa vga) but still I get the same message
> about "Warning: unable to open an initial console."
> 
> Anything else I should be looking at besides the graphics support
> part of the drivers section of the kernel config?
> 
> Again this is a fairly standard PCChips A13G motherboard with
> NVidia chipset and AMD Athlon 3600+ CPU that works fine with the
> regular distro supplied FC9 kernel (2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64) and
> I have the x86_64 version of FC9 installed.


on FC9 ....
here's what to do on a successful boot

mkdir /tmp/mnt2
mount /dev/sdaX /tmp/mnt  
(where the X is your root device, if you use lvm, mount the lvm thing
there)
cp -a /dev/console /tmp/mnt/dev/console
umount /tmp/mnt2

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