"Unable to Mount Initial Console"

["David Lipton" <lipton ifactory com>]

    I have searched through the archives on redhat.com and have found no
answer to this...so please excuse if it has been asked before.  THanks.

    I recently installed RedHat 5.0 on my machine and am having some
problems during boot.  I fire it up via Syslinux (or LOADLIN) and everything
seems to go properly.  It goes all the way up to "VMS: Mounted root (ext2
filesystem) with no problems.  THen it stops and says "Unable to open an
initial console".  Any thoughts why?  I am passing in root=/dev/hda7 (which
is the right root partition) and mem=72M as my parameters to the kernel.
Could /dev/console be blown or something along those lines?  Thanks alot in
advance.

david lipton
lipton ifactory com
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