Re: something wicked in boot-floppies -- new rev impossible

[Eric Delaunay <delaunay@lix.polytechnique.fr>]

Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> 
> There's something seriously amiss in the new boot-floppies.
> The system installs ok, but after installation of the base system
> and reboot on my own power (x86), I get 
> 
> VFS: mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> INIT: version 2.76 booting
> /etc/init.d/rcS: /etc/default/rcS: No such file or directory
> INIT: Entering runlevel: 2
> login[13]: unable to change tty `/dev/tty1' for user `root'
> 
> Unable to change tty /dev/tty1: Illegal seek
> 
> [repeat last two messages over and over]
> 
> What the heck did we do?  I booted from the rescue disk and the
> /dev/tty* major and minor numbers seem ok.

What kind of /dev/console do you have on your system (real dev/symlink) ?
Have you tried to relink it to /dev/tty1 ?

Regards.

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