Re: unable to open initial console [devfs?]

[Dean Brissinger <brissing@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, messing with .devfsd and rc.sysinit has no effect on the kernel 
failure.  I may have to do what Nathan did.  Has anyone else seen 
this problem and found an easy fix for it?

At 3:36 PM -0500 7/19/01, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> The 1.0.1 kernel does not have devfs at all, so your standard on-disk
> /dev should be there waiting for you...
>
> So, I'm not sure why you're seeing this problem.  /etc/rc.sysinit starts
> devfsd if it finds /dev/.devfsd - you might check to make sure it's not
> there for some strange reason.
>
> Hm, I just read Nate's suggestion of reinstalling the dev package... not
> sure what would have caused these problems though.  You can do an rpm
> query / verify of the dev package to see if anything is amiss.
>
> -Eric
>
> On 19 Jul 2001 14:02:45 -0600, Dean Brissinger wrote:
> >         I used the 2.4.5/1.0.1 RPM to upgrade my Redhat system (built
> >  w/ XFS 1.0 CD).  The kernel seems happy but upon booting reports
> >  "unable to open initial console".  I've seen this before when messing
> >  with devfs.  It basically means /dev/ is missing device files.  I
> >  read a while back that this kernel has devfs disabled by default.  Is
> >  there a trick to get the standard /dev back when upgrading from 1.0
> >  to 1.0.1 RPM's?
> --
> Eric Sandeen      XFS for Linux     http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
> sandeen@xxxxxxx   SGI, Inc.


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