I am stuck. I havce installed Suse 5.3 on the two pcs below, and cannot
get either of them to boot. Tech support has gone quiet. Each machine
will boot fine from a floppy, but freezes on startup just before running
init, with the Message: "Unable to open an initial console"
Suse tech support suggested /dev/tty1 missing or corrupt, wrong
partition being booted on, or some wierd umsdos problem (which I don't
have) with version 4.3
I have tried;
* Nagging Suse support
* Checking for, and rewriting /dev/tty1 as suggested by Suse t.s.
* Assigning a root disk on bootup by adding parameters (as suggested)
They are running 2 different kernels, each with their own boot floppy
which works Fine. The Suse option "Boot installed system" gets the
system going. But I may as well not have a system on the laptop... the
floppy only talks to the pc in morse code or semaphore...it's THAT slow!
the PCs
1. AMD 486 SLC-33 with 8 Mb running on the ISA bus. This uses their
default kernel (the one that never fails ;-) I have partitions for boot,
root, and swap, as suggested in their blurb.
2. 486 DX-100 Laptop (Badged by Roldec). This has the hd divided as
above, and also has 8 MB. The internals (graphics, hd) are Vesabus, and
I have tried one of the the Qlogic kernels in the hope (I am allowed to
dream) of getting PCMCIA going.
I haven't messed with the setup as handed to me, and in any event, they
installed this way
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Regards
Declan Moriarty.
