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error: unable to open an initial console

Submitted by tate
on January 25, 2006 - 2:32pm

Hi,

I got this error when i boot from kernel-2.4.29. Before that I have used kernel 2.6.15.1 for two weeks, it worked fine. I used the same .conf for kernel 2.4.32 when I compiled it, but it reported me "error: unable to open an initial console". I cannot fix this problem. Any helps? Thanks a lot!!!

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This sounds like udev missing

Anonymous (not verified)
on
January 25, 2006 - 3:23pm

This sounds like udev missing

You are missing /dev/console

Anonymous (not verified)
on
January 25, 2006 - 6:33pm

You are missing /dev/console and /dev/tty*. Happened to me lots of time
while playing around with udev. The recommended way to use udev is to mount it on a tmpfs. When you reboot all the device nodes gets erased so
when init starts up - which is before you can run udevd or udevstart there is nothing in the /dev directory.

This is quite likely your problem. How you solve it depends on which
distribution you use.

Regards

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