From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 13:25:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Xavier Grave cc: linuxppc-dev Subject: Re: initial console In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Xavier Grave wrote: > I have the following message at boot : > > Freeing unused kernel memory: 220k init 12k pmac 4k chrp 4k openfirmware > Warning: unable to open an initial console. > Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. > Rebooting in 180 seconds.. > > if I give this argument init=/sbin/init it's the same. > > Also hen I try to enable virtual terminual I have the following very early: > > TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096) > Starting kswapd v1.8 > pc_keyb: controller jammed (0xFF). > pc_keyb: controller jammed (0xFF). > and so on... > > Thanks in advance for anyhelp. > > xavier > configuration: CPU 603e + Prep Board What does /dev/console look like? Did you enable any device that can provide a console functionality, like e.g. CONFIG_VT, CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/