Re: Installation problem

["Jimmy Lu" <kintaro@hkabc.net>]

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" <joost@topaz.mdcc.cx>
To: "Jimmy Lu" <kintaro@hkabc.net>
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
>