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

[Geert Janssens]

I don't have an exact answer to your questions, but I ran into similar 
problems lately when upgrading a Mandrake system.

For the missing console, I didn't need to change the initrd, but instead, I 
had to create 
/dev/console
/dev/null
/dev/zero
on my root partition (/)

Udev creates these as well, but at boot time udev isn't there yet, and so the 
initial console is missing.

I found this Fedora page interesting in this regard:
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/udev/

Maybe it can help.

Good luck,

Geert Janssens

On Monday 13 March 2006 21:57, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> Am 12.03.06 19:56 schrieb(en) Albrecht Dreß:
> > The point is that since the upgrade, my self-compiled kernel "misses"
> > something which was not necessary before (possibly related to udev,
> > possibly the initrd?)...
>
> It *is* related to the initrd - if I boot the YDL 4.1 kernel without it, I
> again get the same message.  Questions:
>
> (1) What must be in the initrd to avoid the missing console?
> (2) Why must I have an initrd at all since the upgrade?
>
> TIA,
> Cheers,
> Albrecht.