Re: [ts-7000] Re: Help with Linux 2.6

[Andrew Taylor <>]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 12:08:01AM -0000, chris.gurtler wrote:
> I tested my NFS server using the precompiled 2.4 binaries
> and the suggestions from Andrew and it loads up ok. 
> 
> I then used my 2.6 kernel making sure that the modules were in the
> file system and I get the following error at startup.
> 
> VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem).
> Freeing init memory: 116K
> Warning: unable to open an initial console.
> 
> Does anything need to be added to the filesystem to make it work?

Check your NFS filesystem has /dev/ttyAM0
my build script does this:

cd $NFS_FILESYSTEM/dev
test -e console || sudo mknod console c 5 1
test -e ttyAM0 || sudo mknod ttyAM0 c 204 16
test -e null ||  sudo mknod null c 1 3

Andrew