Pascal de Bruijn wrote: > On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 18:52 -0400, Noah Dain wrote: >> On 7/14/06, Pascal de Bruijn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > After booting the first time, I got this message: >> > >> > Warning: unable to open an initial console. >> > >> > I have no clue what could cause this. Has anybody already experienced >> > this? How can I fix it? >> > >> > I'm working with a PC-Engines WRAP board. >> > >> > Regards, >> > Pascal de Bruijn >> > -- >> > http://blog.pcode.nl/ >> > http://del.icio.us/pmjdebruijn/ >> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/pmjdebruijn/ >> > >> >> the only time i've seen this is when something is wrong with the boot >> configuration, ie. the kernel is passed the wrong root filesystem >> parameter, and the kernel can't find /dev >> >> > > Aha, > > Indeed: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media/root/dev$ ls -l ttyS0 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 pmjdebruijn pmjdebruijn 13 2006-07-14 10:57 ttyS0 > -> /rw/dev/ttyS0 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media/root/dev$ > > The ttyS0 is a symlink, to a file which doesn't exist. My /rw is totally > empty. So /dev contains broken symlinks. > > That will most likely be the issue. > > Any clue on how to fix that? > Did anything go wrong with my installation? > > Regards, > Pascal de Bruijn > > -- > http://blog.pcode.nl/ > http://del.icio.us/pmjdebruijn/ > http://www.flickr.com/photos/pmjdebruijn/
No, you are confused. The symlink is to /rw/dev, and during bootstrap files from /ro are copied over to /rw (see /etc/init.d/mountall.sh, or somewhere around there). That's not your problem. The missing "initial console" is most likely due to one of two things: 1) you have compiled a kernel without specifying support for console on a serial terminal, or 2) your bootstrap parameter in your Lilo or Grub control file is missing the kernel parameter "console=/dev/ttyS0,19200n8" Bill _______________________________________________ Voyage-linux mailing list [email protected] http://list.voyage.hk/mailman/listinfo/voyage-linux
