technojoecoolusa@xxxxxxxxxxx ("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