If you can boot to your hard drive from floppy, then do so, log in as
root, then try this:
cd /dev
./MAKEDEV console
then try rebooting from the hard drive. For some strange reason,
/dev/console is easily corrupted and then causes a LOT of weird
problems like this.
- DeJay.
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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 ?
>
> George
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