🚀 go-pugleaf

Jack Lavelle <lavelle@speedchoice.com> wrote:
[snip]
>I did so, and rebooting commenced just fine until it got to the end of the
>LILO.  The last message on the screen was: "Unable to open initial console."
>
>Then it proceeds to reboot.  It will do that all night and day if I leave
>the machine on.
>
>What do I do about it?

Boot from floppy, mount your root partition on /mnt and create the
correct /mnt/dev/console. The simplest way: 
cp -a /dev/console /mnt/dev/console
Don't forget -a option. 
						HAND,
							Al

PS: BTW, what kind of joker configured the airnews.net? The message-ID is
78 characters long. It doesn't violate any RFC, but...
<4016EF7E0657B9D0.103851E1A6180C72.B5E9584C216BB04D@library-proxy.airnews.net>
looks like a creation of _very_ bored BNAFH.

-- 
My theory is that someone's Emacs crashed on a very early version of Linux
while reading alt.flame and the resulting unholy combination of Elisp and
Minix code somehow managed to bootstrap itself and take on an independent
existence.      -- James Raynard in c.u.b.f.m on nature of Albert Cahalan