[Voyage-linux] Warning: unable to open an initial console.

[Pascal de Bruijn]

On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 18:52 -0400, Noah Dain wrote:
> On 7/14/06, Pascal de Bruijn <pmjdebruijn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > After booting the first time, I got this message:
> >
> > Warning: unable to open an initial console.
> >
> > I have no clue what could cause this. Has anybody already experienced
> > this? How can I fix it?
> >
> > I'm working with a PC-Engines WRAP board.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Pascal de Bruijn
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> 
> the only time i've seen this is when something is wrong with the boot
> configuration, ie. the kernel is passed the wrong root filesystem
> parameter, and the kernel can't find /dev
> 
> 

Aha,

Indeed:

pmjdebruijn at agamemnon:/media/root/dev$ ls -l ttyS0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 pmjdebruijn pmjdebruijn 13 2006-07-14 10:57 ttyS0
-> /rw/dev/ttyS0
pmjdebruijn at agamemnon:/media/root/dev$ 

The ttyS0 is a symlink, to a file which doesn't exist. My /rw is totally
empty. So /dev contains broken symlinks.

That will most likely be the issue.

Any clue on how to fix that? 
Did anything go wrong with my installation?

Regards,
Pascal de Bruijn

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