boot: unable to open initial console

["G. Crimp" <ye416@victoria.tc.ca>]

	I've moved my old system over to a new hard drive.  I thought I was
fairly meticulous in copying things over (compared all permissions,
ownerships, links and other special files between the two file systems).  I
edited lilo.conf and fstab, then shutdown, changed the drives master/slave
jumpers and rebooted from the rescue floppy.

	I used the install program to mount all the partitions and to
mkswap.  Next I switched to the console and copied my kernel to a floppy. 
Evidently, I have overlooked something.  I only get through the first little
bit of the boot sequence (I can write out the whole thing , one screen full,
if anyone wants it) up to where all the partitions are named and 

	VHS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
then	Unable to open an initial console



	Does anyone know what I need to do to fix this ?

	Thanks,

	Gerald


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