On Tuesday 20 Sep 2005 13:47, John Jolet wrote: <snip> > > 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. <snip> > > 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 -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- [email protected] mailing list

