FC3 on second disk, 3rd partition with new kernel hanging

[Richard Hubbell]

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 10:29:40 -0800, Richard Hubbell
<richard.hubbell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Installed FC3 on 2nd drive 3rd partition grub is on the 1st drive.
> FC3 boots most of the time
> from the stock FC3 kernel and initrd.img (often it won't even boot
> that, I get a kernel oops
> from something called scsi_eh)   So I downloaded the latest 2.6.9 and
> patched to 2.6.10.rc2
> Built with and without initrd and I can't boot to a new kernel.  I get
> to a point in the boot sequence and then it hangs with "Warning:
> unable to open an initial console"
> I think that the next step after that is for init to start and do its
> thing.  Has anyone seen this?
> Is it a problem when installing on separate drive or separate
> partition?  I'm puzzled.  Does this type of config require initrd or
> soemthing?  Thanks for any help.
> 
> Richard
> 

This turns out to be a bug with udev.
See the redhat docs page for udev for the complete workaround but

MAKDEV console null zero  has gotten around it.