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Author: James Kehl
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To: Vellemans, Noel, yaffs
Subject: Re: [Yaffs] YAFFS2 - Warning: unable to open an initial console.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [mailto:yaffs-
> ] On Behalf Of Vellemans, Noel
> Sent: Wednesday, 24 September 2008 5:53 PM
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> 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