Re: HELP!! "Unable to open initial console"

Philip Blundell (philb@gnu.org)
Sun, 13 Dec 1998 21:58:03 +0100

>the wrong root partition on the LILO command line. (One wishes the
>error message were more precise -- it could at least say why it can't
>open it: "/dev/tty0 not found", "/dev/console not found", "/dev
>directory missing".) This would be consistent with your suspicion that

This is all done inside the kernel so you don't get much in the way of window
dressing. An errno number could be arranged but that's about your lot. :-)

p.

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