i've got a problem at boot. my debian system crashes. it's using kernel 2.0.36. the error follows the check of the hardware. and the error is: unable to open initial console any help would be great. i've never had to deal with this so all information regarding booting from disk and any boot options would be appreciated. thanks, brad reid umreidbj@cc.umanitoba.ca http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~umreidbj