[OpenWrt-Users] Warning: unable to open an initial console on speedport w701v

[Jan Willies]

Thomas Schäfer wrote:
> Am Montag, 6. August 2007 20:42 schrieb Jan Willies:
>> Thomas Schäfer wrote:
>>> Warning: unable to open an initial console.
>> It's a normal message, no idea where its origin is but I have it on
>> nearly every router I flashed with OpenWrt. It's harmless (at least I
>> think so). Just hit <enter> and you should have a prompt.
>>
> All bugs added by David S. Miller <davem at redhat.com>
> VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly.
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 108k freed
> Warning: unable to open an initial console.
> 
> <enter>  <space> "any key" nothing happens

Are you using latest trunk (r8360)? Try reverting back and see which 
changeset causes the trouble, because I got r8325 working on a W701V. 
Maybe 8353 breaks it? Image is here[1] if you like to verify.


- Jan

[1] http://openwrt.loswillios.de/openwrt-ar7-2.6-squashfs.bin