Re: Warning: unable to open an initial console.

[stappers@stappers.nl (Geert Stappers)]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 06:01:15PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 12:24:36AM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote:
> > On an Intel computer that boot by pxelinux.0 from the syslinux package,
> > I get these last messages
> >  
> > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> > Freeing initrd memory: 1452k freed
> > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> > Freeing unused kernel memory: 76k freed
> > Warning: unable to open an initial console.
> >  
> >  
> > So it dies before the first output...
> 
> Are you passing
> 
>  init=/linuxrc
> 
> to the kernel?
> 

Didn't before,
adding 'init=/linuxrc' to the boot prompt brings me further

thanks!


> -- 
> Matt
> 
Geert Stappers