I am trying to install Debian 2.1 and I can't get the initial
console to load. I have an old Packard Bell 486sx 16 with 8 MB
of ram and a 120MB hard drive. Obviously it has no SCSI, PCI,
or anything else that's up to date. The machine isn't really
good for anything but familiarizing myself with
Hi,
I´m getting this message when i was booting to install.
It occurs booting with the official cdrom or from floopy disks.
The message is:
Unable to open inital console.
Can somebody help me?
Thanks,
ATTENTION: Here are some of my opinions, just it.
I'm not speaking for my Com
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
Hi,
I´m getting this message when i was booting to install.
It occurs booting with the official cdrom or from floopy disks.
The message is:
Unable to open inital console.
Can somebody help me?
Thanks,
ATTENTION: Here are some of my opinions, just it.
I'm not speaking for my Com
There's no need to do that. Just cd /dev (or wherever your dev dir is),
and type "./MAKEDEV *". That should recreate almost all the devices, with the
correct permissions, afaik.
> Perhaps I should just cd /mnt/dev; rm * and then remake the device
> files. I've read about a command to make
On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 05:58:46AM -0700, Taren wrote:
> > > VHS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> > > thenUnable to open an initial console
> > >
> >
> > Looks like /dev/tty0 isn't there.
> >
> > Are use sure you did copy the devices correctly (cp does not copy
> > devices
On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 05:52:36PM +0200, Dirk Bonne wrote:
> Taren wrote:
> >
[snip]
> >
> > Or the permissions aren't set right. I've found that when copying files
> > from /dev, the permissions rarely stay the way they were originally
>
> They should with tar. e.g.:
>
> tar cf - . | (cd
On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 02:58:58PM +0200, Dirk Bonne wrote:
> G. Crimp wrote:
> >
> > I've moved my old system over to a new hard drive. I thought I was
> > fairly meticulous in copying things over (compared all permissions,
> > ownerships, links and other special files between the two fi
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Dirk Bonne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>They should with tar. e.g.:
>
> tar cf - . | (cd somewhere; tar xvf -)
>
>Of course, you must set umask to 000 beforehand
Or use the "p" option with tar when you unpack i.e. tar xpvf -
Mike.
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Taren wrote:
>
> > > VHS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> > > thenUnable to open an initial console
> > >
> >
> > Looks like /dev/tty0 isn't there.
> >
> > Are use sure you did copy the devices correctly (cp does not copy
> > devices correctly, use tar or cpio).
>
> Or the
> > VHS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> > thenUnable to open an initial console
> >
>
> Looks like /dev/tty0 isn't there.
>
> Are use sure you did copy the devices correctly (cp does not copy
> devices correctly, use tar or cpio).
>
> Dirk
>
Or the permissions aren't
G. Crimp wrote:
>
> I've moved my old system over to a new hard drive. I thought I was
> fairly meticulous in copying things over (compared all permissions,
> ownerships, links and other special files between the two file systems). I
> edited lilo.conf and fstab, then shutdown, changed t
I've moved my old system over to a new hard drive. I thought I was
fairly meticulous in copying things over (compared all permissions,
ownerships, links and other special files between the two file systems). I
edited lilo.conf and fstab, then shutdown, changed the drives master/slave
jump
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
> 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
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 and was unable to find anything helpful in the
booti
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