Re: unable to open initial console

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xs4all.nl>]

On 7 Aug 2001, Eric Sandeen wrote:

> On 07 Aug 2001 19:44:38 +0200, Seth Mos wrote:
>  
> > Someone else bumped into the exact same problem. You need to reinstall the
> > devices rpm because it (obviously) didn't get installed on the 1.0
> > release installer. I am not completely sure it sure what the package is
> > called like.
> 
> Actually, the dev RPM (dev-<version>.i386.rpm) should be installed even
> in 1.0, it's just not used.  That's why you should be able to use
> "devfs=nomount" in a 1.0-installer-installed system, and still have
> things work.

Not if /dev/console is missing. I just saw the code from the kernel fly by
on linux-mips where they were discussing a similar problem.

If you cant open /dev/console this is the exact erorr message.

Cheers
Seth