Busybox 1.1.0 error !

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Thu Feb 9 22:09:41 UTC 2006


On Thursday 09 February 2006 04:11, Syed Ahmed wrote:
> hi all just keep getting this error as i have upgraded from busybox 0.60.5
> -> 1.1.0 replaced the busybox binary from old one to new one
>
> to overcome the problem i tried removing /dev/console and made a symlink to
> /dev/console -> /dev/tty0
>
> cant seem to figure it out what is the problem.
> error is this
>
>
>
> Error: -> Warning: unable to open an initial console.

That error message is from your kernel.  In 2.6.15 it's init/main.c, line 719:

        if (sys_open((const char __user *) "/dev/console", O_RDWR, 0) < 0)
                printk(KERN_WARNING "Warning: unable to open an initial 
console.\n");

Rob
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