Subject: Re: IIcx fails at boot - Error 79
To: Bob Nestor <rnestor@augustmail.com>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/05/2001 18:03:25
Bob Nestor wrote:
> Matthew Theobalds wrote:
> 
> >Yes that worked great! Thanks very much indeed. However... When booting in
> >not single user mode as it boots up and cron starts. I get the following
> >error:
> >
> >/dev/ttyE0 No such file or directory.
> >
> >Of course, creating such a directory does not get rid of the error. At that
> >point it boots no further (I went to bed and left it and in the morning it
> >was still complaining that it couldn't find ttyE0).
> >
> >I therefore cannot do anything with it, since it doesn't finish booting and
> >doesn't let me login.
> >
> >Is this a known problem? Do you have any ideas of how to fix it?
> 
> Boot single user and create the wscons devices.
> 
>     cd /
>     mount / -rw
>     cd /dev
>     ./MAKEDEV all

I've just added this question and answer to the FAQ, btw.  I'm not too
sure that the title is too helpful, but hopefully people will see the
"fails to boot multi-user under 1.5" and figure out that they need to read
it.

Later.

Colin