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Re: initial console



In article <[🔎] 20010314162051.A4976@CLS210>,
pplaw  <pplaw@pcisys.net> wrote:
>after getting a kernel panic, as a result of
>trying to boot a custom kernel (2.2.18), i managed
>to fsck dev/hda1 (using a rescue floppy). when i try
>to boot via lilo, i can't open an initial console:
>
>fs: mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
>unable to open an initial console.

That means "cannot open /dev/console". Either it's not there anymore,
or you're mounting the wrong filesystem as root file system.

You can recreate /dev/console with mknod -m 622 console c 5 1

Mike.
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