Re: Tap tap tap, this thing on?

["Bob Ogden" <bob@contact.omen.com.au>]

In <[🔎] 20010126092819.A24656@murphy.nl>, on 26/Jan/2001 
   at 09:28 AM,(+0100 GMT)
Paul Slootman <paul@debian.org> said:

>On Fri 26 Jan 2001, elijah wright wrote:
>> 
>> > so when I do boot fd0:linux.gz root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk it should work?
>> 
>> shouldn't there be a swap_disk flag or something in there for the floppy
>> installer?  i can't remember the name of it off the top of my head, but
>> there's a kernel flag missing here.

>prompt_ramdisk=1 I believe

>Otherwise it tries to use to boot floppy for the ramdisk image.

Tried that too. Not much difference in result to tell the truth. Even
without prompt_ramdisk=1 it prompts for the ramdisk. I'm going to have to
start being methodical and logging everything I try and what result I get
else I'm going to start (have been) chasing my own tail :).

>Paul Slootman


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