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

[Derick Centeno]

Hi Albrecht:

Kai Staats, posted this yesterday; it discusses what you should note in  
upgrading from YDL 4.0 to YDL 4.1.  I'm not sure it addresses your  
particular issues, but it could be useful:

http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/support/solutions/ydl_4.1/kde- 
migration.shtml

Best wishes ...

On Mar 12, 2006, at 9:27 AM, Albrecht Dreß wrote:

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> Hi,
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> 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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