>From a dejanews search for "unable to open an initial console"
1)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: I'm trying to boot a PC from a floppy onto an NFS root.
: I have bootp running on the server, get the IP and everything OK,
: then it says that it has mounted the NFS root partition. Straight
: after that I get "unable to open initial console" and the machine
: hangs.
I was reading the new "Linux kernels internals" book at a friends house
last weekend and, by accident, noticed this error message.
As I recall it tries to open first /dev/tty0 then /dev/ttyS1 as the
console terminal - if both these fail it outputs this message.
2)
> >>. . .rebooting commenced just fine until it got to the end of the
> >>LILO. The last message on the screen was: "Unable to open initial
> console."
> >>
> >>Then it proceeds to reboot. It will do that all night and day if I leave
> >>the machine on.
> >>
> >>What do I do about it?
>
> Alexander Viro was kind enough to respond:
>
> >Boot from floppy, mount your root partition on /mnt and create the
> >correct /mnt/dev/console. The simplest way:
> >cp -a /dev/console /mnt/dev/console
> >Don't forget -a option.
> > HAND,
> > Al
>
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