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Re: err msg: "Warning: Unable to open initial console"
On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Guy Cohen wrote:
I don't think so.
Since he used fsck, which cleared that many inodes, it is almost certain
that the above filesystem was completely thrashed.
I would also recommend to re-install.
--Ariel
>
> 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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