From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751359AbVJFVZI (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Oct 2005 17:25:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751320AbVJFVZH (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Oct 2005 17:25:07 -0400 Received: from wscnet.wsc.cz ([212.80.64.118]:32642 "EHLO wscnet.wsc.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751359AbVJFVZG (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Oct 2005 17:25:06 -0400 Message-ID: <4345962C.4080305@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 23:25:00 +0200 From: Jiri Slaby User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050720) X-Accept-Language: cs, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu CC: umesh chandak , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: about FC3 2.6.10 .......... References: <20051006185922.81946.qmail@web35912.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <200510061925.j96JPWdA027095@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <200510061925.j96JPWdA027095@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu napsal(a): >On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 11:59:22 PDT, umesh chandak said: > > >>Hi, >> I have compiled a 2.6.10 on FC3.It >>compiled successfully .But When i boot to this option >>,it gives me warning >> Warning: unable to open an initial console >>I know this is due to something genromfs . I also read >>about romfs in documentation . >> >> > >(Not a kernel question - next time, ask on one of the Fedora lists at redhat.com) > >Getting FC3 to run on on a romfs based system will be a challenge. In any >case, romfs has approximately zero to do with your problem. > >What you've almost certainly done is forgotten to do a proper 'mkinitrd' - >FC3 and later need an initrd to get going in most cases. (Specifically, >your initrd image needs to have a /dev/console entry in the /dev on the > > Yes, but I really don't know how many times we should tell him this, unless he understands it, grr. [Your post is at least the third reply to this question :(]. -- Jiri Slaby www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby ~\-/~ jirislaby@gmail.com ~\-/~ 241B347EC88228DE51EE A49C4A73A25004CB2A10