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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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