Justin Georgeson wrote:

        Do a web search on "Unable to open an initial console".
You'll get some hits -- not a lot.

        Are the messages below really what you get when you
try to boot normally from the hard disk?  It looks like it's
doing a chroot.  But what would the old root filesystem be?
It could be the kernel in memory, but why would it try to
unmount a former root filesystem *after* mounting a new root?
Wierd.

        Good luck and keep us informed.

        Best,
        
        Nicholas
 
> Here are the messages I'm given when I try to boot off the hard drive:
> 
> <finishes loading aicxxxx module>
> unable to load NLS charset cp437(nls.cp437)
> VFS: Mounted Root (msods filesystem) teadonly.
> Trying to unmount old root...okay
> Unable to open an initial console
> 
> the first time this happened my /etc/fstab had an entry for a VFAT
> filesystem as the first entry. I'm able to boot my system using a floppy
> I made (don't remember how/when). Using the floppy I removed the VFAT
> entry and rebooted, same thing. Now I still have the entry but it's not
> the first one. When I boot using the floppy, it loads the Linux
> partition on my hard drive and acts like it's booting off the hard drive
> completely. Any ideas?
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