Re: boot: unable to open initial console

[Dirk Bonne <dbonne@inform-ac.com>]

Taren wrote:
> 
> > >         VHS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> > > then    Unable to open an initial console
> > >
> >
> > Looks like /dev/tty0 isn't there.
> >
> > Are use sure you did copy the devices correctly (cp does not copy
> > devices correctly, use tar or cpio).
> 
> Or the permissions aren't set right.  I've found that when copying files
> from /dev, the permissions rarely stay the way they were originally

They should with tar. e.g.:

  tar cf - . | (cd somewhere; tar xvf -)

Of course, you must set umask to 000 beforehand

Dirk


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