On Sun, 7 Sep 1997, Jess Stryker wrote: : About every 1 out of 3 times my computer boots I get : a message that says something to the effect of: : "Unable to open an initial console" : and the boot process stops. I'm not familiar enough : with the boot process to know what might be causing : this and was unable to find anything helpful in the : booting Howto. Does anyone have any advice for me? : It's not a major problem, just annoying.
Hmm, sounds familiar. I'm sure someone will come up with a solution, but I'll try to remember what my solution was. : : Information that may be related (?) or may indicate : a completely separate problem: : : Two error messages always appear in the kernels boot : records: : : "Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI Card!" I don't : have any SCSI drives on this computer (to my knowledge!). This is a device compiled into the stock kernel. Either roll your own kernel, or use a boot parameter to avoid probing the controller. : : "PPA: unable to initialise controller at 0x378, error 2" : What is PPA? I believe this is the parallel port access for a ZIP drive. Same as above ... if you don't need it, get rid of it. For what it's worth, i routinely end up with a kernel that's about 62% the size of the stock kernel after i recompile. One a small machine that might make a difference. : : Hardware is: : DFI G586-IPV motherboard with Intel 430VX 512K and : AMD-K5 PR90 CPU. Award bios. : 16 mb EDO 60ns : Very old Maxtor 213MD hard drive Hey, that's more power than my dialup server!! <grin> : : Hopefully that's too much information, but better too : much than too little!!? : : Thanks very much for your assistance! : : Jess Stryker : : -- : Free Irrigation Tutorials on Design, Installation, and More! : ------ Visit them at: ------ : http://www.netyard.com/jsa/index.html -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD 57104 Voice: (605) 334-4454 Fax: (605) 335-1173 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
