Not so long ago Colin Wood said:

> 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.

Bear in mind that the second line should in fact read:

    mount -rw /

Just the order that is slightly out, at least it was for me. Could you give
me the URL of this FAQ so that I can link from my own guide, please?

All the best.

Matthew