I get a message "Warning: Unable to open an initial console" after upgrading from Mandrake 8.0 to 9.1. During upgrade pc locked up so I had to restart and got the error msg. Tried completing the upgrade but nothing. Re-reunning the upgrade and the rescue disk do not seem to work. Any Ideas?

check your /dev directory

crw------- 1 root root 5, 1 2003-04-22 21:09 /dev/console
crw--w--w- 1 ee tty 4, 0 2003-04-18 21:22 /dev/tty0
crw-rw---- 1 root tty 4, 1 2003-04-22 21:09 /dev/tty1
crw-rw---- 1 root tty 4, 2 2003-04-22 21:09 /dev/tty2
crw-rw---- 1 root tty 4, 3 2003-04-22 21:09 /dev/tty3
crw-rw---- 1 root tty 4, 4 2003-04-22 21:09 /dev/tty4
crw-rw---- 1 root tty 4, 5 2003-04-22 21:09 /dev/tty5
crw-rw---- 1 root tty 4, 6 2003-04-22 21:09 /dev/tty6
crw--w---- 1 root root 4, 7 2003-04-22 21:09 /dev/tty7
crw--w---- 1 root root 4, 8 2003-04-22 21:09 /dev/tty8
crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 9 2003-04-22 21:09 /dev/tty9

As far as the tty's and console they all belong to root.root and are all set to crw-r--r-- or crw-------
I can view this after booting rescue from the install disk. It seems the write permissions are not getting set??