Re: "unable to open initial console"

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From: Mahmoud Shuaibi
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 00:00

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Jack Lavelle wrote:

> 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

  Redhat 5.0 should boot from CD-ROM. Go into bios & change booting from A
drive to CD-ROM & that should work.

Regards

Mahmoud

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