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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
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