Hi all, Please point me to the location (and forgive me) if this question has already been asnwered. (I have tried to search the mailing list archive but apparently it is down.)
My problem is like this: I recently upgraded from Debian 1.2 to 1.3 and it worked fine. Yesterday there was a power failure and I try to reboot using the Boot Disk created during the installation but the system just kept on rebooting itself. I then use the Rescue Disk and boot using the option rescue root=/dev/hda5 (I had the / partition on an extended logical partition named hda5.) and the message "unable to open an initial console" appeared. I then tried the default boot option in the Rescus Disk and I was able to mount my previous partitions on the directory /target. However, I cannot do anything else. (I would like, at least, to save my data files!) There does not seem to be a hardware problem because I get the virtual consoles (1 to 4) from the Rescue Disk boot. I would be grateful for your help. Regards, --ST +-----------------------------------------------+ | LUK ShunTim | | | | Civil and Structural Engineering Department | | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | | Kowloon | | Hong Kong | | | | http://www.cse.polyu.edu.hk/~stluk/ | | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | phone: (852) 27666064 | | fax: (852) 23346389 | +-----------------------------------------------+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .