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Re: URGENT !!! SYSTEM BROKEN (CONT)



If you can boot to your hard drive from floppy, then do so, log in as
root, then try this:
	cd /dev
	./MAKEDEV console
then try rebooting from the hard drive.  For some strange reason,
/dev/console is easily corrupted and then causes a LOT of weird
problems like this.

 - DeJay.
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On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, G. Kapetanios wrote:

> 
> Following to my prvious email
> I have installed lilo. the system can boot from floppy. 
> However, when I try to boot from disk the boot starts 
> but it hangs with the following message 
> 
> VFS Mounted root (ext2) filesystem
> Unable to open an initial console
> 
> This does not happen with the floppy boot. 
> Any ideas ?
> 
> George 
> 
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> George Kapetanios
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> U.K.                  WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html
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