Re: something wicked in boot-floppies -- new rev impossible
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999 22:35:36 +0100 (CET), Eric Delaunay <delaunay@lix.polytechnique.fr> said:
> 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) ?
Symlink to tty0, just exactly as it is on my other (fully functional)
machine.
> Have you tried to relink it to /dev/tty1 ?
Um. That seems wrong. Anyhow, I tried it and that didn't work either.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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