John R Lenton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 12:52:07PM -0500, Bradley James Reid wrote: > > i've got a problem at boot. > > my debian system crashes. it's using kernel 2.0.36. > > the error follows the check of the hardware. > > and the error is: > > unable to open initial console
I had that when switching from devfs-kernel back to a non-devfs kernel. 2.0.36? Dunno. If you used to use devfs before, you need to turn it on again. Otherwise, maybe your /dev/* is broken. Obviously, the /dev entry for console is missing. > You compiled your own kernel? you've probably broken it :) -- Tschoe, Get my gpg-public-key here Jens http://gecius.de/gpg-key.txt
