Re: Sorry, more problems from me...

[Pat Mahoney <pat7@gmx.net>]

On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 08:08:42PM -0600, Dakota Duff wrote:
> I get the feeling that I'm gradually inching closer to a successful 
> installation.  However, I'm still not there.
> 
> I've RE-partitioned my hard drive.  I now have a 20mb swap and about 
> 56mb of root&usr.  Anyhow I have a Mac partition for sda1, my 
> root&usr for sda2 and my swap for sda3.  I've also removed my IIci 
> cache card since I heard that cache cards may or may not interfere. 
> The problem that I seem to be having doesn't appear to be a hardware 
> problem, however.
> 
> So now I open the Penguin application and I go to settings.  I make 
> sure that my selected kernel is linux (the one that came with my 
> debian distribution).  I also make sure that I have my ramdisk 
> selected.  The only option that I check is use penguin colors.  I 
> boot...
> 
> Everything goes fine at first.  Then it complains that it is unable 
> to locate a root device. 

[snip]

I don't remember exactly where, but somewhere it should say (or you
should type) "root=/dev/ram0" IIRC.  I think it would probably be
after the name of the kernel.  Or perhaps there is a box in Penguin
that says "boot options" or "kernel options."

[snip]

> suggested that I add to the kernel options in the booter settings, 
> but add what?  I've checked the readme and it doesn't offer me any 
> 
> 
> Dakota Duff

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