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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
