From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 9 16: 7:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from netcom.com (netcom8.netcom.com [199.183.9.108]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 066E54297 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 16:07:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from stanb@localhost) by netcom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA09001 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 16:04:34 -0800 (PST) From: Stan Brown Message-Id: <200002100004.QAA09001@netcom.com> Subject: Unable to open initial console ??? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (Free BSD Questions list) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 19:04:34 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG OK, this is a new one on me. I must have installed FreeBSD on 50+ machines, but I have never seen this error message. Booting from a 3.4 Install set of disks. Right after harware detection, the hard drive being the last item detected I get the message "Unable To Open Inital Console" What does this mean? -- Stan Brown stanb@netcom.com 404-996-6955 Factory Automation Systems Atlanta Ga. -- Look, look, see Windows 95. Buy, lemmings, buy! Pay no attention to that cliff ahead... Henry Spencer (c) 1998 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message