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Initial Console Problem

Hi People,

I'm at the point of giving up, googling for 3 days ;-)

I have a soekris box which boots a 2.6 kernel using ttyS0 as the main console.

I need to recompile the kernel but whenever I install my custom kernel, I get all the kernel boot messages on the serial console, up to the error "Warning: unable to open an initial console"

There is definitely a /dev/console, with maj:min 5 and 1, and the boot messages work fine (console=ttyS0 on bootparam).

I've tried everything I can think of - with initrd, without initrd, changing inittab to start the getty on /dev/ttyS0 instead of just ttyS0. I have disabled the network console in my kernel config.

I am really getting desperate, any pointers would be appreciated!

(kernel version is 2.6.20 but I've tried 2.6.9 and 2.6.11)

Thank you! Andi

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Andi Reinbrech
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  1. Did you enable serial console in the configuration?

  1. Is there a device that the kernel could assume to be a VGA?

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Tauno Voipio
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Tauno Voipio

Andi, You don't mention what you are using to build your root filesystem (i.e. Busybox or something else), and posting your /etc/inittab might also help.

From my /etc/inittab using Busybox, I get my console with:

# Put a getty on the serial port ttyS0::respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100

Any other information you have would prove useful.

Chuck

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Chuck Gales

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