From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id RAA33396 for ; Sat, 1 May 1999 17:29:11 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id RAA13005 for linux-list; Sat, 1 May 1999 17:26:01 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id RAA18405 for ; Sat, 1 May 1999 17:25:59 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (sgi.com!rachael.franken.de!hub-fue!alpha.franken.de!tsbogend) Received: from rachael.franken.de (rachael.franken.de [193.175.24.38]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id UAA00942 for ; Sat, 1 May 1999 20:25:58 -0400 (EDT) mail_from (rachael.franken.de!hub-fue!alpha.franken.de!tsbogend) Received: from hub-fue by rachael.franken.de via rmail with uucp id for cthulhu.engr.sgi.com!linux; Sun, 2 May 1999 01:54:55 +0200 (MET DST) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #4 built DST-Sep-8) Received: by hub-fue.franken.de (Smail3.1.29.1 #35) id m10dk4n-002Q4jC; Sun, 2 May 99 02:25 MET DST Received: (from tsbogend@localhost) by alpha.franken.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id CAA03464; Sun, 2 May 1999 02:14:49 +0200 Message-ID: <19990502021449.A3447@alpha.franken.de> Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 02:14:49 +0200 From: Thomas Bogendoerfer To: Jeff Coffin Cc: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Subject: Re: Yet Closer References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2 In-Reply-To: ; from Jeff Coffin on Sat, May 01, 1999 at 04:40:54PM -0700 Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Sat, May 01, 1999 at 04:40:54PM -0700, Jeff Coffin wrote: > I think it's something else. Here's what I get (this is from ralf's > suggestion, didn't quite work for me) : [..] > Freeing prom memory: 0k freed > Freeing unused kernel memory: 52k freed > Warning: unable to open an initial console. Your /dev/console points to major 4 and minor 0 (5,1 is the correct one). Try the vmlinux-initrd kernel from the test directory. It should drop you into a single user shell with a ram disk as root. You should be able to mount your root, and fix what's necessary. Thomas. -- This device has completely bogus header. Compaq scores again :-| It's a host bridge, but it should be called ghost bridge instead ;^) [Martin `MJ' Mares on linux-kernel]