on 11/5/01 4:38 pm, Dale Swanson at swaneed@mitre.org wrote:

> 2) When booting to Multi User, all diagnostics seem fine until I get a line
> saying something like "Getty[180]: Could not find /dev/ttyE0" on the console.
> After that all prompts cease. The monitor displays and reacts to keyboard
> inputs normally, but nothing typed evokes any response from the system.
> 
> I feel like I am missing something obvious, but can't figure out what it is.
> Any suggestions?

When in single user mode, type:

# cd /dev
# ./MAKEDEV all

This should make your devices, including ttyE0. A bug in the installer means
that this doesn't happen properly when you click on "Make Devices" in the
file menu.

Oliver.

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