Warning: Uable to open an inital console

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Vijay Nikam wrote:
> I have mpc8313erdb board and trying boot the kernel from NAND flash ...
> The kernel is booting fine but it hangs at the following message;
> 
> Warning: unable to open an initial console.

Your root file system doesn't have /dev/console, which should look like:

| crw------- 1 root dialout 5, 1 2008-07-30 10:21 /dev/console

> Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found.  Try passing init= option to
> kernel.

Your root file system doesn't have init (/sbin/init, /init, ...).

With kind regards,

Geert Uytterhoeven
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