From: Michele Andreoli ([email protected])
Date: Thu Jun 28 2001 - 22:40:01 CEST
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 02:43:07PM -0400, Matthew Miller nicely wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Im trying to start mulinux after unpacking and following the directions. I execute boot.bat and the system is fine up until the hard drive section before mounting the file system. Immediately at the point where it mounts the filesystem, it reports: Cannot open initial console.
>
> Here are the facts:
> 1.) I'm using the current stable version of mulinux
> 2.) I'm booting from the hard drive in dos mode
> 3.) I have a loadlin line pointing to root=/dev/hda1 (which is correct)
> 4.) mu linux is in the C:\mulinux directory
It seems all correct. Did you see a c:\linux directory in this disk?
>
> --Other--
> 1.) I tried using /dev/mem instead of /dev/hda1, but I get a kernel panic when I do that.
Oh, no. /dev/mem isn't an hard-disk, as you might expect by the name.
You can know the list of partition with:
-- maintenance mode --
# fdisk -l
Michele
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