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Re: err msg: "Warning: Unable to open initial console"




No need to reinstall !
Your machine simply can't find /dev/hda or what ever the root partition is
installed on. Mount / with a floopy, enter dev directory and run ./MAKEDEV.


Guy Cohen.

At this (Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 07:46:17AM +0200) day, Jonathan Ben-Avraham wrote:
| On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Nathan Fain wrote:
| 
| > I have a Red Hat 6.0 machine.
| > 
| > Someone didn't shutdown one of my RH 6.0 machines properly and just
| > unplugged it from the wall.  This, as expected, caused some problems with my
| > disk. The exact error upon reboot was:
| > EXT2-FS ERROR (device sd(8,3)): ext2_read_inode: unable to read inode
| > block - inode 64321, block = 65540")
| > 
| > So,  I booted with a rescue disk set and e2fsck'ed it.  The check resulted
| > in e2fsck clearing a ton of inodes (something like inode 64300 - 66800).
| > 
| > When I reboot it goes past the location of the old error and gives me:
| > Warning: Unable to open initial console.
| > 
| > It just hangs here.
| > 
| > I've checked in news groups and other sources on-line.  People are telling
| > me to re-install. Is this truly what I should do (as I would really prefer
| > not)?
| > Or is there documentation somewhere on this error and what it is related to.
| > 
| > Any help or leads on how to solve or approach this problem
| > 
| > thanks
| > - Nathan
| > 
| 
| Yup, re-install. The only alternative is to mount the disks on another
| machine, go into the lost+founds directories and sew the file system back
| together by hand. If this is feasible at all it will probably take more
| time and bother than reinstalling from your daily backup tapes. You did
| make daily backup tapes didn't you?
| 
|  - yba
| 
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