[ydl-gen] Upgrade 4.01 -> 4.1: odd boot behaviour

[Albrecht Dreß]

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Hi,

as my system contains *tons* of self-compiled stuff not included in the  
official disto, I upgraded from YDL 4.01 to YDL 4.1 rpm's. Mostly the new  
system seems to run fine, but I found an odd behaviour of the boot  
process. If I boot the YDL 4.1 kernel, I see boot messages as usual. If I  
boot a self-compiled 2.5.15 (stripped down to my requirements, and without  
initrd) I only see the message "Warning: unable to open an initial  
console". The system comes up properly, /except/ that the console charset  
is not loaded, and neither info about the boot process nor a chance to go  
into single user mode.

As this used to work with 4.01's rc.sysinit, I guess I missed something  
either in the kernel. Or do I need the initrd? Searching the web, I found  
some hints that /dev/null and/or /dev/console might be missing, but adding  
commands to the beginning of rc.sysinit to explicitly create them in this  
case doesn't help.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
Albrecht.

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