Bug#122142: Happens here too

[Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>]

On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 02:02, Craig Small wrote:
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> Warning: unable to open an initial console.
> Adding Swap: 51184k swap-space (priority -1)
> eth5: Link is up using external transceiver at 100Mb/s, Full Duplex.
> 
> Don't know why i get the error about the console, there is a getty on
> ttyS0

That's pretty significant.  It must mean that something is wrong with
/dev/console.

>         fd = open("/dev/console",O_RDONLY);
> 
> 
>         /* Are we on a serial console? */
>         if (ioctl(fd, TIOCGSERIAL, &ser) < 0)
>                   /* Not on a serial console */
>                   printf("Not on serial line.\n");

Would you add a check for success to the open() call as well and try it
again?

p.