[wellylug] Semi-booting system...

[Sam]

You can't store nodes from /dev/ on an iso9660 filesystem... chances are
you have nothing in /dev.

I'm not sure what the mimimum required to boot is, but you'll definately
need at least your drives, /dev/console and /dev/null.  Probably more as
well.

On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Jethro Carr wrote:

>
> hi,
>
> I wanted to replace my LFS install, with a older version, on a cdrom, as
> I had stuffed so many things up while trying to get gnome to work...:(
>
> Originally, once my LFS worked, I make a backup onto cdrom, by copying
> everything to a folder, and then to a cd.
>
> To replace the current version with the backed up version, I simply
> deleted all the files on the partition, and copied all the files from
> the cdrom to the partition.
>
> Now, when I boot it, it starts to load, but just before it starts Init,
> the system stops and says:
> "WARNING: Unable to open Initial Console"
> I get stuck there, and cannot go any further. :((
>
> Does anyone know what could be wrong, & how I might be able to fix it?
> (I don't want to spend an entire weekend compiling software again...;)
>
> thanks,
>
>
>
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>
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