Can't boot

[Atro Tossavainen]

> Each time I restart the system fails at
>     Mounting proc filesystem: dup2 bad file descriptor

My previous experience with "dup2 bad file descriptor" messages at boot
suggests that something has botched up /dev/null, turning it into a
regular file.

If you manage to get to single user mode and issue the commands

	rm -f /dev/null
	mknod -m 0666 /dev/null c 1 3

you've solved the problem.

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