Re: UDB RH6.0 CD install problems with initial console

[Rich Payne <rdp talisman alphalinux org>]

On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Matthew Monacelli wrote:

> I thought I made it quite clear that I do not have a floppy drive.  Is there
> a way to extract the ramdisk floppy image to the external hard drive?

You did, my appologies for not reading the entire message, my fault.

In theory I guess you could make a partition on the harddisk, rawrite the
image file to the partition (using rawrite under NT, will it let you
rawrite to a HDisk partition?), and then pass Linux the HDisk parition as
the root fs, you'll still need the load_ramdisk=1 line.

worth a try I guess.

--rdp
 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rich Payne" <rdp@talisman.alphalinux.org>
> To: "Matthew Monacelli" <nestle579@hotmail.com>
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> Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 8:28 AM
> Subject: Re: UDB RH6.0 CD install problems with initial console
> 
> 
> On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Matthew Monacelli wrote:
> 
> > Hello all.  I have a Multia 166 and a SCSI CDROM and two SCSI HD's (9GB
> and
> > 2GB).  The 2GB is blank and I have installed NT4 Server on the 9GB drive
> > since I couldn't get Linux going right away.  I got as far as booting the
> > kernel (generic.gz) and it finds the SCSI devices, video, etc (even with
> the
> > Tux graphic) until I get the "Warning: Unable to open initial console"
> error
> > mesage.  All I can do from there is 3-finger solute back toMILO (which I
> am
> > starting from ARC).  I have been searching through the list archive trying
> > to find a solution but all I can find is "use the floppies".  Well, I
> don't
> > have a floppy drive so that doesn't work for me.  The 2GB HD is totally
> open
> > to putting anything on it that would allow to me to install RH6.0.  Any
> help
> > is very much appreciated.
> 
> 
> Use a floppy as the ramdisk instead of the CD. This should allow you to
> install.
> 
> --rdp
> 
> > Matt Monacelli
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Rich Payne
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