According to Akintayo Holder: While burning my CPU.
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> Ray Olszewski wrote:
> >
> > It would help to know (a) the exact wording of the error messages and (b)
> > what runlevel you normally boot into (text consoles or xdm). Also, can you
> > boot into single-user mode?
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> a. Trying to umount old root......okay
> Unable to open an original console
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> b. I boot into the text consoles.
> >
> >
> >
> > If you can boot with an "emergency boot" disk (by which I mean one that
> > loads a kernel but uses your hard disk Linux partition as the root
> > filesystem; I forget what RH calls them), I'd check the two likely sources
> > of the problem:
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> First time I have heard of such a disk, checked the docs and it has the
> instructions.
> I had a rescue disk, that loaded the filesystem of the floppy so I had
> to mount the partitions. This leads to another question should I mount
> the partitions with the same point originally used? i.e.. should I mount
> the root HD partition over the floppy root partition.
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> > 1. Is /etc/inittab corrupted?
> no it seems just fine, it is a bit long to mail but if memory serves me
> it contains all it should.
>
> >
> > 2. Are the /dev/tty* files that the consoles attach to okay?
>
> they are all there
> from tty0 onward, the only point to note is that tty1-6 have the date of
> the problem. I think that is standard though.
>
> in short the /dev directory looks like this, there are more files.
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> crw------- 10 0 4, 0 May 5 1998 console
> crw------- 1 500 100 4, 0 May 5 1998 tty0
> crw----w--- 1 500 5 4, 1 Feb 5 21:08 tty1
If these are from your H/D then i dont think they are correct. The biggest
mistake a lot of people make when booting from a rescue disk is that after
mounting thier H/D then the need to add the mountpoint before the directory
becomes of imense importance, you said, "in short the /dev directory looks"
which gives me an indication that you did not type "/mnt/dev" and are
reading the files from the /dev directory on the floppy.
If they are from your H/D then i rather think the first number is incorrect
for the console entry.
crw------- 2 root tty 4, 0 Feb 2 14:36 /dev/console
I dont know the exacht number substitutions, but i have never seen a
/dev/console device with anything more than "2"
Also the second number looks fishy, a "0" ??
Of course i could be wrong.
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> this seemed quite proper to me.
Not to me, but then i am "not" always correct in my assumptions.
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Regards Richard.
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