Thanks for the response, I do have an entry /dev/console, user root, group tty. It has no symlinks. I would have to reconnect the suspect disk to check if it is the same.
Thanks Paul On Monday 19 Sep 2005 15:23, Michael Kintzios wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 19 September 2005 14:39 > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk > > > > > > Well I have carried out the procedure outlined in your > > message, but I have had > > some problems. > > When booting the new disc it always failed with a reiserfs > > problem (I once > > rebuilt the tree), after 3 attempts I still had errors so I > > formated the > > partition with ext2, copied all the files and rebooted. IT WORKED. > > Which of the different procedures did you try. Did you run > fsck.reiserfs from a LiveCD or your old disk to see if some corruption > occurred during the data transfer? (I guess it's too late now). > > > The only error I have detected is during boot I get a warning > > "unable to open > > an initial console", the screen freezes until x is started. > > This doesn't seem to be a big problem but I would like to fix > > it -- any > > ideas???? > > Not entirely sure - others may want to advise better - but are you > running devfs? It seems that this is an error thrown up when devices > are not recognised. This would make some sense, after all this is a new > device. With udev all you should do is restart udev and the new device > parameters would be recognised. That should happen during a reboot > unless you have configured your machine to cache the device db? Can you > find your /dev/console and does it have the same sylinks and access > rights as your old disk installation? I'm not at my Linux machine now > so I can't check myself. > > Finally, reset your BIOS before a reboot if you have > disconnected/reconnected drives, to recognise the new devices and their > boot order. > -- > Regards, > Mick -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
