"unable to open initial console"

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#74

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

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I just installed Red Hat 5.0 on an all-Linux machine -- 133 Pentium, 1.6 g
HDD., 48 M RAM

After I got to the end of the install, the message told me to remove all
media and reboot.

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?

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

Re: "unable to open initial console"

#75

Author: Alexander Viro
Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 00:00

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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

Re: "unable to open initial console"

#76

Author: 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

Re: "unable to open initial console"

#77

Author: 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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