Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Dec 1999 12:22:22 +0100 | From | Gabor Lenart <> | Subject | Re: console error |
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On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 12:11:28PM +0100, Josef Höök wrote: > what is wrong when i get > warning: unable open an initial console
from init/main.c:
if (open("/dev/console", O_RDWR, 0) < 0) printk("Warning: unable to open an initial console.\n");
(void) dup(0); (void) dup(0);
Kernel can't open /dev/console. Probably you tried to mount a file system for root which is not (for example your ext2 partition holding the /usr file system), and it does not contain the "/dev/console" device.
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