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Darrin Stephens wrote:
> 
> Hi I'm new at linux. Currently I am trying to install RedHat linux 4.2
> on a new machine. The machine consists of
> 
> ASUS TX97-E motherboard with 64Mb EDO RAM
> 2.1 and 5.1 Gb Maxtor harddrives
> Adaptec 1542CP SCSI card
> Digital networkcard (tulip chipset)
> Matrox Millenium 4Mb graphics card
> Pioneer 24X CDROM
> Segate 8 Gb DAT drive
> 
> So far I have been getting a heap of warnings about unkown PCI
> devices (this has been explained to me as being that the linux kernal
> 2.3.0 does not recognise the intel TX430 chipset yet, I have been told
> this is harmless),the other problem I have been having is that I get a
> message saying can not open initial console after booting. After this
> message is displayed the machine reboot's and does the same thing.
> Has anyone come across this problem before, if so can you please help
> me.
> --

I've had the "unable to open console" thing happen to me, and I fixed it
by rerunning lilo. You'll need to boot your system with the installation
disks, (choose the rescue option).

Mount your / file system like so
mkdir /mnt
mount -t ext2 /dev/hda /mnt

then examine your lilo.conf, which is currently mounted at
/mnt/etc/lilo.conf.

Check particularly that the path to your kernel (vmunix) is correct.

then run lilo with the -r option
/mnt/sbin/lilo -r /mnt

then reboot. 


Hope this helps
Paul