Re: Help... won't boot

["Adam Williams" <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 10,  9:09am, Hank wrote:
> Subject: Re: Help... won't boot
> More interesting tidbits. When I try to use the rescue disk, it starts the
> normal boot dialog stuff, then it just stops with the last 3 lines on the
> screen being:
>
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> Trying to unmount old root ... okay
> Unable to open an initial console.
>

I have seen this before,  but I can't remeber exactly what caused it.  If I
recall correctly it was when my boot disk was trying to mount the wrong
partition as root,  and thus the /dev/tty* files weren't there to start a
console.  Can you do an rdev on your boot disk?  (Of course this requires a
working machine).

Someone tell me if I'm off base here.