On Fri, 7 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > although i am not using a toshiba laptop, i am having similar problems > w/ getting a thinkpad 770 ed to work. > > i also had this rebooting problem initially. although i haven't > gotten the rescue disk to finish booting, making a zimage on another > debian machine and replacing the kernel image (named 'linux' on > the rescue disk) has allowed my machine to get further in the booting > process -- it now gets to the point where the root filesystem has > been mounted read-only. however, it stops after that saying: > > "unable to open initial console"
I've also had to make my own kernel for a friends laptop, but considering how unsupported the hardware was already, I didn't think anything of it. There is a readme on the boot floppy (for those who don't know, you can mount the boot floppy as a dos disk) that tells you what kernel options are required. Perhaps you forgot one of these? > btw, do you know how to report bugs for the installation floppies? There is a package, something like boot floppies. Just look around for a little bit in the packages file or in dselect and you should be able to find it. HTH, Brandon -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
