Re: CD install instructions

[David Walter <dwalter@syr.edu>]

Russell Senior <seniorr@aracnet.com> writes:

>
> b) I read elsewhere (??) that the serverboot.gz business was
>    deprecated, but the recommended alternative doesn't seem to work.
>    What is up with that?
>

I believe that the problem is as thus, (unless this  is CD specific of
which I have no recent experience):

Server boots kernel command line want's a path to the root slice/partition.

e.g.

kernel /boot/gnumach.gz root=/dev/hd0s1
module /boot/serverboot.gz


I can't confirm whether the default that comes with grub works.

kernel /boot/gnumach.gz root=hd0s1
module /boot/serverboot.gz

The complete command line version wants a root=device:hd0s1
kernel /boot/gnumach.gz root=device:hd0s1


But you also have to  be sure to  include the complete commandline. If
you   are reading it  off   of the web  you may   find that there  are
erroneous line breaks which are not escaped with \'s.

HTH

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