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tuppe666
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 Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 11:06 pm Post subject: Warning: Unable to open initial console |
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| I get "Warning: Unable to open initial console" as my last boot message and then nothing till my login prompt I am using the 2.6.28 kernel |
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Yamakuzure
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| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 9:47 am Post subject: |
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I had this when I changed filesystems this weekend. /dev/console seemed to be missing. What fixed it for me was to boot from a rescue/install CD, mount my root partition into /mnt/gentoo and then copied first the boot cds generated dev over. Second I copied the /dev from a stage3-archive. The latter unpacked on a different partition mounted on /mnt/backup, obviously. | Code: | # rm -rf /mnt/gentoo/dev/*
# cp -a /dev/* /mnt/gentoo/dev/
# cp -a /mnt/backup/stage3/dev/* /mnt/gentoo/dev/ |
after that everything worked fine again.
Of course this is a very radical thing to do, and there might be a better solution to the "initial console missing"-issue...
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outermeasure
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| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 9:52 am Post subject: |
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| Yamakuzure wrote: | I had this when I changed filesystems this weekend. /dev/console seemed to be missing. What fixed it for me was to boot from a rescue/install CD, mount my root partition into /mnt/gentoo and then copied first the boot cds generated dev over. Second I copied the /dev from a stage3-archive. The latter unpacked on a different partition mounted on /mnt/backup, obviously. | Code: | # rm -rf /mnt/gentoo/dev/*
# cp -a /dev/* /mnt/gentoo/dev/
# cp -a /mnt/backup/stage3/dev/* /mnt/gentoo/dev/ |
after that everything worked fine again.
Of course this is a very radical thing to do, and there might be a better solution to the "initial console missing"-issue... |
You need /dev/console and /dev/null present in your root file system, if I remember correctly. Some devices are needed for booting up before udev takes over. |
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tuppe666
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| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 5:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | crw------- 1 root root 5, 1 2008-12-29 11:47 console
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 2008-12-29 11:47 null |
I'm so not sure what to do |
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