Re: woody boot hangs w/CD

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 07:08:00PM -0400, Donald Knecht wrote:
> Ben Collins wrote:
> > 
> <snip>
> > 
> > It shoul dbe loading an initrd. What are you entering as the boot args?
> > 
> nothing, i just hit enter @ debian boot: prompt, (i've tried "rescue",
> with the same results)
> ............now i'm worried i didn't RTFM :o

Try this at the boot prompt:

boot: /boot/sparc32.gz initrd=/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-sparc/current/images-1.44/root.bin root=/dev/ram

If the sparc32.gz doesn't work, use just /boot/sparc32



Ben

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