Kernel 2.6.10 Can't Open Initial Console on FC3

Colin Charles byte at aeon.com.my
Mon Jan 3 03:09:28 UTC 2005


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 devices, but from the documentation I've read my
> money is on no.

It does work. For quite a while on the PPC tree, we ended up doing some
manual MAKEDEVs to make it work. IIRC, booting with selinux=0 might have
been required as well

(this was in the pre-FC-3 rawhide days)
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