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 the drives master/slave > jumpers and rebooted from the rescue floppy. > > I used the install program to mount all the partitions and to > mkswap. Next I switched to the console and copied my kernel to a floppy. > Evidently, I have overlooked something. I only get through the first little > bit of the boot sequence (I can write out the whole thing , one screen full, > if anyone wants it) up to where all the partitions are named and > > VHS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. > then Unable 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 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
