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On Wednesday 18 August 2004 03:44 pm, milter@××××.fr wrote: |
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> > I'm having trouble re-installing Gentoo on my PowerBook G3 |
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> > Lombard/Bronze. Specifically, I'm having trouble with the kernl: During |
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> > start-up the 2.6.7-r12 kernel complains "Warning: Could not open initial |
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> > console". What's causing this? |
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> Check this link : |
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> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=204496&highlight=open+initial+cons |
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>ole |
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> Maybe it will help. |
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Thanks, Milter but that post doesn't *really* address the problem. The post's |
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author, porodzila, even says... |
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it turned out that i compiled the kernel wrong, but don't ask me what i did |
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exactly (or did not do).... |
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I'd like to know *what* I'm missing so that I can avoid making the same |
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mistake next time. ;) |
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> Else try to search on http://forums.gentoo.org with exact error messages |
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I already did that. Thanks, anyway! |
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Eric P. |
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Sunnyvale, CA |
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