Re: Unable to open initial console using kernel 2.6.18-8



fimarn wrote:
I am trying to boot on 2 processor Intel system, but after the
message

VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem).
Freeing unused kernel memory: 268k freed

I am getting

Warning: unable to open an initial console

It seems to me that this causes the system to hang right after that.
My kernel command line looks like:

Kernel command line: auto rw root=/dev/nfs init=/sa_links/nash /
sa_links/sash_init_script console=ttyS0,9600n8 nfsroot=/tftpboot/
%s,v3,tcp,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 ip=bootp

My sash_init_script contains:

exec /sbin/init auto rw

Perhaps, I setup some flags incorrectly when I compiled the kernel.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.


You have specified a serial console on
the command line, but you do not have a
/dev/ttyS0 entry or the serial port driver
is not compiled into the kernel with the
'Serial Console' option.

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Tauno Voipio
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