On Thu, 6 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : At around Thu, 06 Aug 1998 18:15:20 +0900, : I may have mentioned: : : [discussion about installing debian on a thinkpad 770 ed snipped] : : > i just realized that i'd been using a 2.0.35 zimage on a 2.0.34 rescue : > disk...perhaps this was the cause of the initial console error message. : > i am recompiling a 2.0.34 zimage now. : : i tried this but i got the same error message: : : Unable to open an initial console. : : :-( : : is there anything else i should do to the rescue disk perhaps?
Stupid question, but did you run all the appropriate rdev commands that the bootdisk kernel needs? (You can find them in the rdev.sh file on the rescue disk) Sorry if you already knew that :) -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null