Re: Unable to open initial console

Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
9 Jun 1997 12:11:45 +0200

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In article <199706090740.RAA03188@mustang.sdc.com.au>,
Stephen Davies <scldad@sdc.com.au> wrote:
>I have just bought a new PCI Pentium to replace my old 486-33 Linux
>server and get the above message when trying to boot 2.0.30.

You might be trying to use the wrong root file system. Eg if you
define the /usr partition as root, there obviously is no /dev/tty1..

Mike.

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