Warning: unable to open an initial console

loserveg · 02-02-2007, 04:23 PM

hi guys,

so im running into some lilo/grub hell...

i have foresight installed on sda5 with grub on the first sector or whatever and lilo on the mbr.

i dont know what to look at/change to get rid of this warning, if anyone has advice i would greatly appreciate it.

loserveg · 02-02-2007, 06:51 PM

i guess it might help if i put the lilo.conf in here:

Code:

image = /boot/vmlinuz
  root = /dev/sda3
  label = Slackware
  read-only # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for checking
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /boot/vmlinuz
  root = /dev/sda5
  label = Foresight
  read-only # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for checking
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# Windows bootable partition config begins
other = /dev/sda1
  label = WindowsXP
  table = /dev/sda
# Windows bootable partition config ends

this was all created using liloconfig

gnashley · 02-03-2007, 01:11 AM

Is the drive a SATA drive? Are you using kernel 2.6 and udev(you still need devs installed)

loserveg · 02-03-2007, 02:22 AM

yes it is a sata drive, no im using the 2.4.33.3 kernel and as far as i know there is now udev with my system

loserveg · 02-03-2007, 02:22 PM

ok so i installed grub to the mbr and lilo on the root, added an chainloader entry to menu.lst and had lilo boot first os immediately...and it works.

Randux · 02-03-2007, 04:33 PM

This is a problem that has been mentioned several times. I also had it happen and it got "fixed" by running LILO again. This is not a solution since nobody has figured out what is actually going wrong.