unable to open initial console (ENODEV) (WAS: problem w/ kernel init (rootfs vs initial console / init process))

2017-09-10 Thread mtx
On 10.09.2017 11:09, mtx wrote: it tries to open the initial console, before even attempt to mount the > root fs, which obviously is doomed to fail. (directly passing root=> via cmdline - no initrd etc) Solved it. For the record: the uart2 node was still disabled, so the kernel did allocate a c

problem w/ kernel init (rootfs vs initial console / init process)

2017-09-10 Thread mtx
Hi folks, I've got a very strange problem w/ v4.13 (on imx6): it tries to open the initial console, before even attempt to mount the root fs, which obviously is doomed to fail. (directly passing root= via cmdline - no initrd etc) What puzzles me most: prepare_namespace() is only called from ke