Re: unable to open initial console

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xs4all.nl>]

On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Jonathan Dill wrote:

> Thanks everyone for the quick responses.  I can't boot the 2.4.2 kernel
> with devfs=nomount, so it looks like the devices is indeed the problem. 
> However, reinstalling dev is turning out to be not so simple with devfs
> mounted on /dev--the install just hangs, as I suppose it is trying to
> install the inodes into the devfs.  I think I'm going to have to try
> booting off the installation CD and try to fix the devices from the bash
> prompt on console 2.  With luck, I might just need /dev/tty1 to get the
> system to at least boot up so I can fix it.  Otherwise, if there is some
> way to make an archive of inodes, I might be able to make an archive of
> the inodes from another computer and restore the archive, then reboot
> and reinstall dev.  Or I could try to install the dev RPM that way.

Boot the installer with lunux rescue to get your xfs supported linux
rescue environment.