Re: Unable to open initial console

1999-03-26 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
I do think that this problem is related to /dev/console file. This file should exists and should be pointing to /dev/tty0 (usually.) Bye, Giuseppe Andre Luis Cardoso wrote: > > Hi, > > I´m getting this message when i was booting to install. > It occurs booting with the official cdrom or from fl

Re: Unable to open initial console

1997-09-08 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, 7 Sep 1997, Jess Stryker wrote: : About every 1 out of 3 times my computer boots I get : a message that says something to the effect of: : "Unable to open an initial console" : and the boot process stops. I'm not familiar enough : with the boot process to know what might be causing : this

Re: Unable to open initial console

1997-09-07 Thread joost witteveen
> About every 1 out of 3 times my computer boots I get > a message that says something to the effect of: > "Unable to open an initial console" > and the boot process stops. I'm not familiar enough > with the boot process to know what might be causing It's linux/init/main.c:1005 if ((open