[Celinux-dev] Problem in network booting

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Paul Mundt wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 02:42:08PM +0530, Ashay Jaiswal wrote:
> > Kernel Hangs after following message:	
> > 		
> > VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem).		
> >      Freeing unused kernel memory: 108k freed		
> >      Warning: unable to open an initial console.		
> > 		
> > I need some guidance regarding network booting (Is any document
> > regarding
> > network booting is available on the website?).
> > 
> This is not a network booting problem, it succesfully mounted the file
> system. The problem is your console device, either a missing device node,
> or a broken configuration. Presumably you're using a serial console?
> What's your console= line on the kernel command line look like?

Indeed. Does your NFS file system have /dev/console?

crw------- 1 root root 5, 1 Dec 16 09:38 /dev/console

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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