portege install problems
Hi all, I had this strange experience today, I was not able
to install debian on my 3440 portege. I am running linux on
it since I got, but still had a windows partition on it.
Since I hardly ever used it I decided to use it for fresh
debian potato installation with reiserfs.
I tried some reiserfs bootfloppies, no succes, the normal
bot floppies, no succes, booting with the CD, no succes,
installing via dos, almost succeeded but I screwed it up
myself. After this alst attempt I also got rid of my dos
partition so I can not try this one again.
So, what's the problem? I have got a USB floppy, the rescue
disk is read when booting, but linux can't find the root
disk in the usb drive. To make things worse, the portege
doesn't want to boot with the debian CD. BTW, it is a
freecom PCMCIA cdrom.
Oke, last possible solution, install from linux HD. I have
an not directly needed linux ext2 partition where I put the
rescue.bin, root.bin, base2_2.tgz and drivers.tgz. Then
booting with the rescue disk and at the boot prompt I typed:
linux root=/dev/hda4 everything goes well but then the
kernel isn't able to open an initial console. It suggests to
pass a init= to the kernel. I tried passing init=/dev/ttyp0
but this doesn't help, the message is still the same.
Any suggestions?
TIA,
Dirk
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