> -----Original Message-----
> From: yaffs-bounces@lists.aleph1.co.uk [mailto:yaffs-
> bounces@lists.aleph1.co.uk] On Behalf Of Vellemans, Noel
> Sent: Wednesday, 24 September 2008 5:53 PM
> To: yaffs@lists.aleph1.co.uk
> Subject: [Yaffs] YAFFS2 - Warning: unable to open an initial console.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have been struggling for a couple of days with YAFFS2 kernel
2.6.25.x
> 
> The error I get is "Warning: unable to open an initial console."
> 
> When I boot the system in ext2 and/of jffs2 all seems to work, and I
do
> not get the "initial console" error.
> Someone can help me a little further?
> 

Off the top of my head, it sounds like /dev/console might be missing. If
you're using yaffs as a root partition, you need to put some device
nodes on it (this is true for ext2 and jffs2 as well).

BTW, Google seems to know a fair bit about this error message.

James