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 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.
>
Had a look. :( It's there. Symlink to console. Console is there,
too. Permissions, ownership and major/minor numbers are exactly the same
between the original and cloned tty0 and console. The only that is
different is the time stamp.
Thanks,
Gerald
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