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From: tglx@linutronix.de (Thomas Gleixner)
To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Unable to open console /start init - more info (jffs2)
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 09:54:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200303120954.55244.tglx@linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <008d01c2e804$b981cd00$150a0ac0@jbmsoft.com>

On Tuesday 11 March 2003 20:30, Brian T. wrote:
>
> But I don't see any JFFS2 output (formatting the blocks...etc...) on the
> 2.4.20 kernel I'm trying to get running:
> VFS: Mounted root (jffs2 filesystem) readonly.
Your root-fs is mounted with JFFS2-Filesystem

> Freeing unused kernel memory: 60k freed
> Warning: unable to open an initial console.

This message appears when your system tries to open /dev/ttyX and it is not 
there. The possible reasons for this are:
- Wrong root partition
- /dev/ttyX is not there
- The kernel was compiled without support for virtual termainals.

-- 
Thomas
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-12  8:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-11 16:58 Unable to open console /start init Brian T.
2003-03-11 19:30 ` Unable to open console /start init - more info (jffs2) Brian T.
2003-03-12  8:54   ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2003-03-12 18:27     ` Brian T.
2003-03-13 13:06       ` Brian T.
2003-03-13 12:32   ` Bob Chiodini

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