> I just finsihed installing debian on my machine at home, and the box got
> knocked last night and crashed big time.
>
> I tried booting it back up, and i got an error
> Unable to Open Inital Console
> I used the debian boot disk to get something up and running and ran e2fsck
> over all of the file systems, i thought it might be a problem, there, and
> there where, but they where fixed up. But still i get the error message.
> Any ideas ppls ?
/dev/console got lost in the fsck
on my debian system (potato, but it should be the same as slink),
/dev/console is a symlink to /dev/tty0:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Sep 12 11:03 /dev/console -> tty0
crw--w--w- 1 root root 4, 0 Mar 1 09:49 /dev/tty0
to recreate these (check whats there first) do:
ln -s tty0 /dev/console
mknod -m 444 /dev/tty0 c 4 0
or just run "MAKEDEV console"
you have probably lost other /dev nodes, so probably best to just do
"MAKEDEV generic" and that will regnerate a standard set of devices
(including console)
oh yeah, and since you'll be running it from a boot disk, adjust all
the /dev paths to suit your mountpoint (MAKEDEV creates devices in the
current directory, so cd into your mounted /dev first)
