unable to open a initial console

hi,

after a clean fc3t2 installation (powerbook g4) i was not able to boot
error: "unable to open a initial console"
and here it stops.
is this a known bug ?


initrd was missing.

booting into rescue mode
chroot /mnt/sysimage
append the initrd line in the /etc/yaboot.conf
mkofboot
and all is ok.


# cat /etc/yaboot.conf
boot=/dev/hda2
device=/pci@f4000000/ata-6@d/disk@0:
init-message=Welcome to Fedora Core\!
Hit <TAB> for boot options.


partition=4
timeout=30
install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
default=Linux
defaultos=linux


image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667
        label=Linux
        root=/dev/hda4
        read-only
        initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img

-- 
shrek-m

shrek-m(a)gmx.de wrote:

>  hi,
>
>  after a clean fc3t2 installation (powerbook g4) i was not able to boot
>  error: "unable to open a initial console"
>  and here it stops.
>  is this a known bug ? 

yes,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=133684

>  initrd was missing. 
-- 
shrek-m

[Colin Charles]

On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 19:13 +0100, shrek-m(a)gmx.de wrote:
>  after a clean fc3t2 installation (powerbook g4) i was not able to
> boot
>  error: "unable to open a initial console"
>  and here it stops.
>  is this a known bug ? 
Yes, and stop using the fc3t2 installation. Its just left there for
legacy reasons

Try the newer testing tree; the udev issues have been "fixed", and the
ext3 resizing ppc issue that causes inode 7 issues have been fixed too
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"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, 
then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi

Colin Charles wrote:

> On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 19:13 +0100, shrek-m(a)gmx.de wrote:
>   
>
> >after a clean fc3t2 installation (powerbook g4) 
> >
> Yes, and stop using the fc3t2 installation. Its just left there for
> legacy reasons
>
> Try the newer testing tree; the udev issues have been "fixed", and the
> ext3 resizing ppc issue that causes inode 7 issues have been fixed too
>   
>  
can you provide the url ?

i have downloaded the images from here, saturday 2005-01-22

http://fedoraproject.org/fedorappc/FC-3/isos/

$ ll FC3-re1115.0-ppc-disc*
-rw-rw-r--  1 admin admin 664201216 16. Nov 00:28 
FC3-re1115.0-ppc-disc1-ftp.iso
-rw-rw-r--  1 admin admin 665786368 16. Nov 00:29 
FC3-re1115.0-ppc-disc2-ftp.iso
-rw-rw-r--  1 admin admin 666836992 16. Nov 00:30 
FC3-re1115.0-ppc-disc3-ftp.iso
-rw-rw-r--  1 admin admin 675971072 16. Nov 00:32 
FC3-re1115.0-ppc-disc4-ftp.iso

# mount -oloop /data4/iso/fc-ppc/FC3-re1115.0-ppc-disc1-ftp.iso /mnt/loop/

# ls /mnt/loop/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-release-*
/mnt/loop/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-release-2.91-6.ppc.rpm

== fc3 test2


updates from
ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/people/dwmw2/fc3-updates-ppc/


-- 
shrek-m

[Colin Charles]

On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 10:14 +0100, shrek-m(a)gmx.de wrote:
>  can you provide the url ?
>  
>  i have downloaded the images from here, saturday 2005-01-22
>  
>  http://fedoraproject.org/fedorappc/FC-3/isos/ 
That is the URL. we forgot to update fedora-release, oops ;-)

You're getting unable to open an initial console issues, even when your
yaboot.conf specifies and initrd?

Odd. Look at harald's udev page (at fedora.redhat.com, somewhere) about
booting without an initrd. That may assist you, though we've not seen
this problem in ages....
-- 
Colin Charles, byte(a)aeon.com.my
http://www.bytebot.net/
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, 
then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi

Colin Charles wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 10:14 +0100, shrek-m(a)gmx.de wrote:
>   
>
> >can you provide the url ?
> >
> >i have downloaded the images from here, saturday 2005-01-22
> >
> >http://fedoraproject.org/fedorappc/FC-3/isos/
> >    
> >
>
> That is the URL. we forgot to update fedora-release, oops ;-)
>
> You're getting unable to open an initial console issues, even when your
> yaboot.conf specifies and initrd?
>   
>  
with  initrd=/boot/initrd-`uname -r`.img all is ok.
but should work out of the box.

> Odd. Look at harald's udev page (at fedora.redhat.com, somewhere)
> about
> booting without an initrd. That may assist you, though we've not seen
> this problem in ages....
>   
>  
harald hoyer
ftp://people.redhat.com/
http://people.redhat.com/harald/

-- 
shrek-m

[Colin Charles]

On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 17:39 +0100, shrek-m(a)gmx.de wrote:
>  >You're getting unable to open an initial console issues, even
> when
>  your
>  >yaboot.conf specifies and initrd?
>  >  
>  >
>  
>  with  initrd=/boot/initrd-`uname -r`.img all is ok.
>  but should work out of the box. 
Yes, lets make sure we don't even have to run yabootconfig any longer,
and anaconda gets that all set up for us okay?

>  >Odd. Look at harald's udev page (at fedora.redhat.com,
> somewhere)
>  about
>  >booting without an initrd. That may assist you, though we've not seen
>  >this problem in ages....
>  >  
>  >
>  
>  harald hoyer
>  ftp://people.redhat.com/
>  http://people.redhat.com/harald/ 
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/udev

It used to be somewhere at harald's page, I forget where...
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"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, 
then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi