Re: unable to open initial console

[Chris Baker <electro@trylon.1939worldsfair.com>]

"Erich Morfeld" <redbeard@linuxmail.org> writes:

> Performa 475
> 68RC040
> 24Mb RAM
> PDS ethernet card
>  40Mb MACOS8.0
>  40Mb A/UX Root slice 0
>  64Mb A/UX Swap slice 1
> 570Mb Free A/UX slice 3
> Debian 2.0-Slink
> 
> Kernel:linux
> Ramdisk:root.bin
> Command Line:root/dev/sda1 video=font:VGA8x16
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I believe this should be 

root=/dev/ram

You need the `=' regardless.  If you're booting from a ramdisk, you
use /dev/ram, and if you're booting from a partition (say, sda1) you
use /dev/sda1.

HTH,

cbb