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I am trying to install RedHat 5.1 Linux on my
Challenge. I finally got the kernel to boot from the prom via
bootp/tftp. The loading of the kernel stops with the following
messag:
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
The HOW-TO states the following:
This problem has two possible solutions. First make sure you actually have a driver for the console of your system configured. If this is the case and the problem persists you probably got victim of a widespead bug in Linux distributions and root filesystems out there. The console of a Linux systems should be a character device of major id 5, minor 1 with permissions of 622 and owned by user and group root. If that's not the case, cd to the root of the filesystem and execute the following commands as root: rm -f dev/console mknod --mode=622 dev/consoleYou can also do this on a NFS root filesystem, even on the NFS server itself. However note that the major and minor ids are changed by NFS, therefore you must do this from a Linux system even if it's only a NFS client or the major / minor ID might be wrong when your Linux client boots from it. I have followed the above instructions and still I
get:
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
I would assume then that I need a special driver
for for the serial port (zs0). Just to clarify I am connecting a terminal
to the serial port of the Challenge.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance,
Robert Rusek
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