Hi all, I had this strange experience today, I was not able to install debian on my 3440 portege. I am running linux on it since I got, but still had a windows partition on it. Since I hardly ever used it I decided to use it for fresh debian potato installation with reiserfs. I tried some reiserfs bootfloppies, no succes, the normal bot floppies, no succes, booting with the CD, no succes, installing via dos, almost succeeded but I screwed it up myself. After this alst attempt I also got rid of my dos partition so I can not try this one again. So, what's the problem? I have got a USB floppy, the rescue disk is read when booting, but linux can't find the root disk in the usb drive. To make things worse, the portege doesn't want to boot with the debian CD. BTW, it is a freecom PCMCIA cdrom. Oke, last possible solution, install from linux HD. I have an not directly needed linux ext2 partition where I put the rescue.bin, root.bin, base2_2.tgz and drivers.tgz. Then booting with the rescue disk and at the boot prompt I typed: linux root=/dev/hda4 everything goes well but then the kernel isn't able to open an initial console. It suggests to pass a init= to the kernel. I tried passing init=/dev/ttyp0 but this doesn't help, the message is still the same. Any suggestions? TIA, Dirk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
