On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 17:17 -0600, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 00:12 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > >On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 16:05 -0600, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> > >> On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 17:25 +0200, Meelis Roos wrote:
> > >> > TS> Warning: unable to open an initial console.
> > >> >
> > >> > Try to use network console if the native console is not supported.
> > >> > netconsole=..., see Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt
> > >>
> > >> It was a good idea, but unfortunately:
> > >>
> > >> eth0: Quattro HME slot 0 (SBUS) 10/100baseT Ethernet 08:00:20:b7:8f:c8
> > >> eth1: Quattro HME slot 1 (SBUS) 10/100baseT Ethernet 08:00:20:b7:8f:c9
> > >> eth2: Quattro HME slot 2 (SBUS) 10/100baseT Ethernet 08:00:20:b7:8f:ca
> > >> eth3: Quattro HME slot 3 (SBUS) 10/100baseT Ethernet 08:00:20:b7:8f:cb
> > >> netconsole: eth0 doesn't support polling, aborting.
> > >>
> > >> Yes, I have an e10k too. :)
> > >
> > >Even when I mount a valid root over NFS, the kernel always says:
> > >Warning: unable to open an initial console.
> >
> >
> > >VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem) readonly.
> > >Warning: unable to open an initial console.
> >
> > Create /dev/console as char(5,1) on the root fs.
>
> Already existed:
>
> [root@odyssey gdb]# ls -l dev/console
> crw--w---- 1 root tty 5, 1 Jan 25 10:33 dev/console
Also tried mounting the nfsroot rw, but still:
TCP cubic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
IP-Config: Complete:
device=eth0, addr=10.15.36.9, mask=255.255.255.0, gw=10.15.36.254,
host=spot1, domain=, nis-domain=(none),
bootserver=10.15.36.3, rootserver=10.15.36.3, rootpath=
Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 10.15.36.3
Looking up port of RPC 100005/1 on 10.15.36.3
VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem).
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
eth0: Link is up using internal transceiver at 10Mb/s, Half Duplex.
eth0: Happy Meal out of receive descriptors, packet dropped.
eth0: Happy Meal out of receive descriptors, packet dropped.
Looking at init/main.c:
if (sys_open((const char __user *) "/dev/console", O_RDWR, 0) < 0)
printk(KERN_WARNING "Warning: unable to open an initial console.\n");
... so, if root is mounted (over nfs), and root is mounted rw,
and /dev/console exists on the nfsroot, and it has rw permissions (I
gave it chmod 777 to just be sure), why would that sys_open call fail
and trigger that printk?
~spot
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