Re: URGENT !!! SYSTEM BROKEN (CONT)
On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 11:02:31PM +0100, G. Kapetanios wrote: Following to my prvious email I have installed lilo. the system can boot from floppy. However, when I try to boot from disk the boot starts but it hangs with the following message VFS Mounted root (ext2) filesystem Unable to open an initial console This does not happen with the floppy boot. Any ideas ? It cannot find /dev/console on your root partition. This coule mean either that just that file does not exist (it certainly should), or that the partition is ext2fs but is not your root file system. Do you have another ext2 partition which you might have pointed it to mistakenly? (With root= on the command line or in lilo.conf?) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org
Re: URGENT !!! SYSTEM BROKEN (CONT)
If you can boot to your hard drive from floppy, then do so, log in as root, then try this: cd /dev ./MAKEDEV console then try rebooting from the hard drive. For some strange reason, /dev/console is easily corrupted and then causes a LOT of weird problems like this. - DeJay. _ / Bedrock \__ | http://bedrock.dyn.ml.org/dejay | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| |_| On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, G. Kapetanios wrote: Following to my prvious email I have installed lilo. the system can boot from floppy. However, when I try to boot from disk the boot starts but it hangs with the following message VFS Mounted root (ext2) filesystem Unable to open an initial console This does not happen with the floppy boot. Any ideas ? George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: URGENT !!! SYSTEM BROKEN (CONT)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi George On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, G. Kapetanios wrote: Following to my prvious email I have installed lilo. the system can boot from floppy. However, when I try to boot from disk the boot starts but it hangs with the following message VFS Mounted root (ext2) filesystem Unable to open an initial console This does not happen with the floppy boot. Any ideas ? Seems to me that something/someone deleted /dev/tty?? To restore it, mount the root partition /somewhere from the rescue disk cd /somewhere/dev and execute ./MAKEDEV tty I hope this helps Once you can boot as usual double check other important devices aren't missing regards, Ulisses - - Computers are useless. They can only give answers.Pablo Picasso -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: latin1 Comment: PGP public key avaliable at http://www.rediris.es/cert/keyserver iQB1AwUBNhsd/A/N+5+NQ63pAQGkpQL/Zgl8HjwzVYVc7yQNlfAUijlMTIflnocN sv+ixzuNltl2aJIkP2Y8fFmOYo19RbQdG20vctlrShA3HMK2e0C2Qir+eHWQi9K1 CDt+4IdQQ28/m3/pTm5PP4gSsipSUfgF =IBbN -END PGP SIGNATURE-
URGENT !!! SYSTEM BROKEN (CONT)
Following to my prvious email I have installed lilo. the system can boot from floppy. However, when I try to boot from disk the boot starts but it hangs with the following message VFS Mounted root (ext2) filesystem Unable to open an initial console This does not happen with the floppy boot. Any ideas ? George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html ---
