FC3 does not boot with an own vanilla kernel

[RON FLORY]

> On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 12:34 -0600, RON FLORY wrote:
> 
>>  I know I did when I tried it, except i run mkinitrd manually.
>>
>>  Could this have something to do with udev?  I noticed that if
>>I enabled the deprecated /dev FS, it broke in a slightly different
>>manner.  I suspect the problem is the FC3 environment expects a
>>magic combination of kernel options- I just have not been able to
>>stumble upon them yet...

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> hmm you need tmpfs enabled but beyond that... can't really think of
> anything.

  yeah, I just tried it again.  Looking at .config, tmpfs is
definitely enabled, but the boot process aborts with:

"Warning: unable to open an initial console."

  and thats the last thing it does.

  I've tried this on perhaps 3 different makes/models of
x86 systems, all with same results.  In each case 'console'
is either local laptop or generic x86 HW.  I know this will
be simple when it finally makes sense...

ron

  P.S.  Also, what has to be enabled in the kernel to support
        the grub 'root=LABEL=/' directive?   I always have to
        supply literal 'root=/dev/hdax' with kernel.org kernels.

  Thanks.

ron