Re: Installation problem

[joost@topaz.mdcc.cx (Joost Kooij)]

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