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[jpg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (John P. Griffin)]

Chris,

  I experienced the same (Unable to open Initial Console) on my alternate 
system a couple of weeks ago. I also submitted this to the list, and read all
documentation I could find on lilo, which is very meager considering the
absolute importance of its main function - bootstrap an OS, and alternative
boot managers. No success!

  Someone responded to me indicating I needed to mark the partition active. In
my case it didn't make sense since the linux kernel is on a separate disk, and
by default was marked active. It was marked active by the way. You might try
this, if your kernel is on the same disk as the Windows 95 OS, and it is not
the first partition.

  Anyway I had to resort to making a boot floppy with the kernel on it. as
lilo is a very unstable product. I have had numerous problems with it over the
past 3 years. My problems have been isolated to dual/triple/etc. boot systems,
where the linux kernel was not on the first drive or not on the first
partition of the first drive.  I don't believe lilo gets that much attention
due to the fact that once the 'developers' get their system to boot
satisfactorily, lilo is no longer on their minds.

Good Luck,
jpg

> 
> Okay, after having trouble getting loadlin to work, I decided to try and
> install LILO. Everything went flawless until I tried to boot my linux config. 
> It started to load, and right after listing the drives, it says "Unable to open
> Initial Console" and locks up.  This, by the way, was exactly what happened
> when I tried to use *loadlin* exactly the way the book says to. (and was why
> when trying to get loadlin to work that I was typing "loadlin hda6" as opposed
> to what the book says "linux hda6" in order to get anything to run---but even
> that doesn't work now) 
> 
> Any help GREATLY appreciated,
> 
> 
> Chris
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