RE: Slink install on Falcon. Can't make a boot floppy

["Brian Hutchinson \(EUS\)" <EUSBTH@am1.ericsson.se>]

Yes.

I have three partitions:

/dev/sdb1 is swap
/dev/sdb2 is root
/dev/sda2 is usr

I made root=/dev/sdb2

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Schmitz [mailto:schmitz@opal.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de]
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 10:36 AM
To: Brian Hutchinson (EUS)
Cc: 'debian-68k@lists.debian.org'
Subject: RE: Slink install on Falcon. Can't make a boot floppy


> I did that.  Although I don't remember the -s.  I think I had -k linux
root
> linux root=/dev/yyyy video=keep

And the yyyy should be replaced with the Linux device name of your root
partition. The partition naming scheme is explained in the text. 
 
> I just verified that this is what the install.txt file says to do.
> 
> What does -s do for me and could that be the problem?

Places the kernel in ST-RAM. Recommended. 

	Michael