Mr. Kooij, Thank you for your suggestion but I still can not complete the installation. Can someone out there tell me what does the Warning message mean? And tell me why my computer keep booting itself?
Thanks, Jimmy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joost Kooij" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jimmy Lu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 08:35 PM Subject: Re: Installation problem > On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 05:09:15PM +0800, Jimmy Lu wrote: > > I tried to install Debian 2.2r3 from 3 floppies (rescue.bin, root.bin, & > > driver-1.bin) to my old computer which used to > > have Debian 2.0 in it. Because I wanted to change some > > partitions, I started fresh from 2.2r3. Everything went well > > until I reboot the system. After loading LILO and decompressing Linux for a > > while, I saw a messge as following: > > > > "Warning: unable to open an initial console" > > > > Then the system will reboot. This process will repeat until I turn the power > > off. > > > > Can someone help me to solve this problem? > > Do you remember th name of the partition with the root filesystem? > If so, try booting the rescue disk with the boot options: > > "rescue root=/dev/xyz" > > See if that works. > > Cheers, > > > Joost >
