Re: boot: unable to open initial console

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

G. Crimp wrote:
> 
>         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
> 

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). 

Dirk


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