Hello, It is because you need to use an initrd. Your device nodes in FC3 are being managed by udev, and you otherwise won't have a /dev/console or /dev/hda at that stage of the boot. There's also the matter of LVM, if your root partition is a logical volume. Another reason you might need an initrd.
Your mkinitrd script in FC3 will take care of these matters for you. Mike On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 23:00:14 -0600 "Joseph D. Wagner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The newly compiled kernel gets through everything OK including > mounting the root file system as read-only EXT3. However, it > freezes on the very last line, which says: > > Warning: unable to open an initial console > > If I switch back over to the kernel that came with the distribution, > everything boots fine, so I'm assuming the problem lies in the way I > configured the kernel. > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
