Re: install prob: "unable to open initial console" on A4000
Hi Christian,
here now the promised update for the mailing list:
The "unable to open an initial console" was not the problem. I could solve
it by just copying the /dev/console from my old Redhat installation over
the debian´s.
However, it still hang. I identified the program dbootstrap as the one which
was blocking the system.
I disassembled and re-assembled my machine part by part, I removed the RAM,
took another processor card etc., and finally the oktagon controller proved
to be "guilty" of stopping dbootstrap. I had an oktagon controller in a
Zorro slot, because I use it sometimes for my scanner.
I do not know, why dbootstrap hangs. I had the idea, that it might be
probing for devices on the oktagon, but it did not recover even after 15-20
minutes, and I have not been patient enough to try it for hours ;-)
So no idea.
Well, at least, it works now.
But the net problem will come soon.... ;-)
Regards
--
Oliver
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