Kernel 2.6.10 Can't Open Initial Console on FC3

[Enrico Scholz]

technojoecoolusa at charter.net ("Joseph D. Wagner") writes:

> The newly compiled kernel gets through everything OK including mounting
> the root file system as read-only EXT3.  However, it freezes on the
> very last line,

it should not freeze; just wait a little bit...


> which says:
>
>      Warning: unable to open an initial console

/dev is empty without udev. When you do not need initrd, execute:

| # mount --bind / /mnt
| # cp -a /dev/console /dev/null /mnt/dev/
| # mkdir /mnt/dev/pts



Enrico