Re: Unable to boot Woody on Amiga

["R.P.Donoghue" <R.P.Donoghue@Eng.Hull.ac.uk>]

Thank you both for your help and advice.  I was tearing my hair out on that
one.  Simple really...

Now I just need to learn how to use Linux.  :-)

Thanks again



----- Original Message -----
From: Wouter Verhelst <wouter@grep.be>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: R.P.Donoghue <R.P.Donoghue@Eng.Hull.ac.uk>; Debian GNU/Linux m68k
<debian-68k@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 2:12 AM
Subject: Re: Unable to boot Woody on Amiga


> On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 10:47:00AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > > amiboot-5.6 -k c:\linux\linux.bin root=/dev/hdb1 ro
> >
> >   - AmigaOS uses forward slashes, not backslahses
> >   - C: is not what you think it is ;-)
>
> Okay, bad guess. Twice :-)
>
> >     (C: is the equivalent of /bin on Linux.
> >     By default C: is assigned to SYS:C, while SYS: is assigned to your
boot
> >     device. You can think of `assigning' like some sort of temporary
symbolic
> >     link.)
>
> Right.
>
> --
> The amount of time between slipping on the peel and landing on the
> pavement is precisely one bananosecond
>