unable to open an initial console WAS: FAI, RAID, booting

[Geert Stappers]

At 21:05 +0200 9/18/02, pll at lanminds.com wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>When the system boots, lilo is able to find everything, the RAID sets are
>found
>and sync'ed, yet it kernel panics at the very end of the boot sequence:
>
>    Warning: unable to open an initial console
>    Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.

I had that also a time ago.
The kernel I build myself hadn't Virtual Terminal support.

Check your kernel config for  CONFIG_VT and CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE

>
>Any idea what I'd need to pass as an init option to the kernel?

I assume nothing


Geert St