RE: Kernel 2.6.10 Can't Open Initial Console on FC3

2005-01-02 Thread Colin Charles
On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 10:05 -0600, Joseph D. Wagner wrote: > They tell me there's a way to make it work without initrd, but it's > ugly, messy, and not recommended: > > http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/udev/ > > I haven't yet tested to see if it works with initrd and without > support for hotplug de

RE: Kernel 2.6.10 Can't Open Initial Console on FC3

2005-01-01 Thread Joseph D. Wagner
RESOLVED. I enabled support for hotplug devices and installed an initrd; then it works. They tell me there's a way to make it work without initrd, but it's ugly, messy, and not recommended: http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/udev/ I haven't yet tested to see if it works with initrd and without supp

Re: Kernel 2.6.10 Can't Open Initial Console on FC3

2004-12-31 Thread Mike Houston
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