Re: daily thinkpad 770 ed post :-)

[sen_ml@eccosys.com]

At around Thu, 06 Aug 1998 17:33:02 +0900,
 I may have mentioned:

> At around Thu, 6 Aug 1998 04:27:31 -0400 (EDT),
>  Steve Hsieh <steveh@eecs.umich.edu> may have mentioned:
> 
> > The only way we were able to get our thinkpad to boot debian was to
> > rebuild the kernel using 'make zimage' instead of 'bzimage'. The tecra fix
> > doesn't work for 2.0.34 or above for us.  The other alternative is to use
> > the development 2.1.1xx kernel. A make zimage for that does work. 
> 
> i did try something like this earlier, but i think i ended up w/ something
> like:
> 
>   "unable to open initial console"
> 
> after the root filesystem was mounted read-only.
> 
> i'll give this a try again -- what i did before was to take the zimage
> that i compiled and replace it w/ the kernel image on an existing rescue
> disk.  is there anything else i should do besides replace the kernel?

i just realized that i'd been using a 2.0.35 zimage on a 2.0.34 rescue
disk...perhaps this was the cause of the initial console error message.
i am recompiling a 2.0.34 zimage now.

-sen


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