Mailing List Archive: console woes

console woes

Apr 28, 2005, 4:30 PM

Post #1 of 3 (757 views)

I cannot get the xen kernel to read open a console. I finally got it to
see my root partition, but now I can't get past this. I've tried every
combination of tty0, tty1, tty2, etc., but it hangs with the final error
message:

Warning: Unable to open an initial console

My grub.conf file is pretty plain:

default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu

title Xen 2.0 / XenLinux 2.6.9
kernel /xen.gz dom0_mem=131072
module /vmlinuz-2.6.10-xen0 root=/dev/sda3 ro console=tty1

title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667smp)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667smp ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667smp.img

title Fedora Core-up (2.6.9-1.667)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img

Since I am still new to Xen, and quite frankly, don't know exactly what
it is doing yet, please be easy on me ;)

Thanks,

greg

Re: console woes [ In reply to ]

mark.williamson at cl

Apr 28, 2005, 4:57 PM

Post #2 of 3 (739 views)

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Have a look at the Xen FAQ http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenFaq, in
particular, section 5.2 may be useful to you.

Cheers,
Mark

On Friday 29 April 2005 00:30, Nate, Greg wrote:
> I cannot get the xen kernel to read open a console. I finally got it to
> see my root partition, but now I can't get past this. I've tried every
> combination of tty0, tty1, tty2, etc., but it hangs with the final error
> message:
>
> Warning: Unable to open an initial console
>
> My grub.conf file is pretty plain:
>
>
> default=0
> timeout=5
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> hiddenmenu
>
> title Xen 2.0 / XenLinux 2.6.9
> kernel /xen.gz dom0_mem=131072
> module /vmlinuz-2.6.10-xen0 root=/dev/sda3 ro console=tty1
>
> title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667smp)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667smp ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
> initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667smp.img
>
> title Fedora Core-up (2.6.9-1.667)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
> initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
>
> Since I am still new to Xen, and quite frankly, don't know exactly what
> it is doing yet, please be easy on me ;)
>
> Thanks,
>
> greg

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RE: console woes [ In reply to ]

Greg_Nate at adp

Apr 28, 2005, 5:09 PM

Post #3 of 3 (745 views)

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Doh! I was reading that very section when I received this email...

Thanks again,

greg

-----Original Message-----
From: xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com
[mailto:xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of Mark
Williamson
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 4:57 PM
To: xen-users@lists.xensource.com; Nate, Greg
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] console woes

Have a look at the Xen FAQ http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenFaq, in
particular, section 5.2 may be useful to you.

Cheers,
Mark

On Friday 29 April 2005 00:30, Nate, Greg wrote:
> I cannot get the xen kernel to read open a console. I finally got it
> to see my root partition, but now I can't get past this. I've tried
> every combination of tty0, tty1, tty2, etc., but it hangs with the
> final error
> message:
>
> Warning: Unable to open an initial console
>
> My grub.conf file is pretty plain:
>
>
> default=0
> timeout=5
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> hiddenmenu
>
> title Xen 2.0 / XenLinux 2.6.9
> kernel /xen.gz dom0_mem=131072
> module /vmlinuz-2.6.10-xen0 root=/dev/sda3 ro console=tty1
>
> title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667smp)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667smp ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd
> /initrd-2.6.9-1.667smp.img
>
> title Fedora Core-up (2.6.9-1.667)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd
> /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
>
> Since I am still new to Xen, and quite frankly, don't know exactly
> what it is doing yet, please be easy on me ;)
>
> Thanks,
>
> greg

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