Re: pre-2.0.31-6 hangs at boot...

Trevor Johnson (trevor@jpj.net)
Fri, 15 Aug 1997 18:45:11 -0400 (EDT)

> > With pre-2.0.31-6 I'm still receiving the "Unable to open an initial
> > console" message from init/main.c which I experienced with pre-2.0.31-5
> > and reported yesterday.
>
> Hmm, sorry if this is a totally wrong answer. The only time I have
> seen that message was when one of my friends had powercycled his
> Linux box while playing quakeworld. Inserting his berserk drive in
> my Linux box, running fsck on it and fixing the /dev entries (tty's)
> by running ./MAKEDEV in /dev fixed the problem that time.

Here's how it looks when I'm logged in through the modem on ttyS1. The
hang happens consistently with pre-2.0.31-5, and happened the one time I
tried to boot pre-2.0.31-6. I don't see it at all with 2.0.30, which was
running before, in between, and after the attempts with the pre-2.0.31
kernels.

/dev> ls -l tty? ttyS?
crw-r----- 1 root tty 4, 0 Aug 15 09:27 tty0
crw------- 1 root root 4, 1 Aug 15 14:00 tty1
crw------- 1 root root 4, 2 Aug 15 14:00 tty2
crw------- 1 root root 4, 3 Aug 15 13:44 tty3
crw------- 1 root root 4, 4 Aug 15 14:00 tty4
crw------- 1 root root 4, 5 Aug 15 13:43 tty5
crw------- 1 root root 4, 6 Aug 15 12:19 tty6
crw------- 1 root root 4, 7 Aug 15 09:12 tty7
crw------- 1 root root 4, 8 Aug 15 14:00 tty8
crw-r----- 1 root root 4, 9 Oct 26 1996 tty9
crw-r----- 1 root tty 4, 64 Jan 1 1970 ttyS0
crw--w---- 1 trevor tty 4, 65 Aug 15 22:44 ttyS1
crw-r----- 1 root tty 4, 66 Jan 1 1970 ttyS2
crw-r----- 1 root tty 4, 67 Jan 1 1970 ttyS3
crw-r----- 1 root tty 4, 68 Jul 17 1994 ttyS4
crw-r----- 1 root tty 4, 69 Jul 17 1994 ttyS5
crw-r----- 1 root tty 4, 70 Jul 17 1994 ttyS6
crw-r----- 1 root tty 4, 71 Jul 17 1994 ttyS7
crw-r----- 1 root tty 4, 72 Jul 17 1994 ttyS8
crw-r----- 1 root tty 4, 73 Jul 17 1994 ttyS9
___
Trevor Johnson