On Tuesday 20 Sep 2005 13:47, John Jolet wrote:
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> > Since using the new disc all seems to be well except for the warning
> > message on boot "unable to open an initial console", the screen freezes
> > until x is started.  
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>
> This is caused by the fact that, at that time, there is no /dev/console
> file.  There's a readme on the  gentoo site somewhere I read the other
> day that talks about how to fix this.  I apologize, but I cannot recall
> the exact url.  Has to do with udev versus devfs.

Well thanks John, that fixed it.
If anybody else needs this the reference is 
www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml

regards
Paul
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