Re: "unable to open initial console"

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From: Jack Lavelle
Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 00:00

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After a "successful" installation of Red Hat 5, I got the following message:

>>. . .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?


Alexander Viro was kind enough to respond:

>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


My difficulty is that I am so new to Linux I don't understand the advice Al
gave me.  All I am trying to do is to get Linux to boot!

Anyone?

TIA

Jack Lavelle -- Phoenix -- lavelle@speedchoice.com

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Date: 1998/05/17
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