From: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@cyclades.com>
To: "Matheus Izvekov" <mizvekov@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cannot open initial console
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:28:48 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200602231528.52605.ncunningham@cyclades.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <305c16960602221818h69de46cfpa06027b44c2e07e8@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi.
On Thursday 23 February 2006 12:18, Matheus Izvekov wrote:
> Hi all
>
> When i tried kernel 2.6.15.4, i noticed i cant boot it, i get
> "warning: cannot open initial console" then it reboots. I've searched
> for it and found the breakage occurs from 2.6.15.1 to 2.6.15.2
>
> Before i start to bisect to find the culpirit, and as there were few
> changes, anyone has a good guess about what broke it?
My guess would be that /dev/console doesn't exist on an initrd/initramfs
you're using. If you're not using one, my second guess would be that
something did a nasty and deleted the node on you. Only a guess, mind you.
Regards,
Nigel
> Thanks all in advance.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-23 5:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-23 2:18 cannot open initial console Matheus Izvekov
2006-02-23 5:27 ` Matheus Izvekov
2006-02-23 5:25 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-02-23 5:28 ` Nigel Cunningham [this message]
2006-02-23 6:41 ` Matheus Izvekov
2006-02-23 6:46 ` Matheus Izvekov
2006-02-23 7:07 ` Chris Wright
2006-02-24 10:33 ` Vitaly Fertman
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