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Re: I'm stuck



On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Rob Byrnes wrote:

> I have finally got to installing Debian on my Cabriolet.  Where I am stuck
> id at the reboot point after dbootstrap is run and base is installed.  I am
> using ARC and milo to boot the machine, and my disk is laid out as follows:
> 
> hda1 - 5 meg for bootloader (milo ... but its not there yet)
> hda3 - swap
> hda4 - /var
> hda5 - /
> hda6 - /usr
> 
> If I boot from a floppy into milo, whats the incantation to get Linux to
> boot from hda5?

At the milo prompt, type:
	boot hda5:/vmlinux.gz root=/dev/hda5

Substitute "vmlinux.gz" for the kernel filename and location that you have
on your drive.  MILO should let you ls the drive to double-check the
filename.

Congrats on the install of Debian :-)  Enjoy :-)

C



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