"vt: argh, driver_data is null" message hangs on shutdown

[Colin Charles]

On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 14:39 -0600, Rene Salmon wrote:

> 1)I did not really upgrade I did a clean new install.

So, today I did a clean install - iMac DV SE

> 2)After the clean install the machine will not boot it will hang
> at the very beginning with this message.
> 
> "unable to open an initial console" is
> displayed, then a few SELinux context messages, then it just hangs.

Got that today

> This is a reported bug 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=133684
> 
> solution to this that worked for me was to add these lines to the 
> /etc/yaboot.conf file.
> 
> sysmap=/boot/System.map-xxxx
> initrd=/boot/initrd-xxxxx

So, my /etc/yaboot.conf file now looks like (and yes, i ybin'ed it):

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667
label=Linux
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
sysmap=/boot/System.map-2.6.9-1.667
root=/dev/hda2
read-only

> Now a have a happy Mac running linux.

It hates me!
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