booting challenges with lx164

["Eric S. Johansson" <esj@harvee.billerica.ma.us>]

a friend of mine gave me an lx164 and now I'm trying to make it run Debian. I've 
upgraded the BIOS to the latest arc (5.7) version.  I can run milo off of the 
first Debian CD but I can't get the boot command right.  My starting place is:


boot sr0:/boot/linux root=/dev/sr0

VFS: can not open root device 00:00

and then I get a kernel panic about not being able to open the root device. I've 
tried a bunch of different options but I'm not really sure what to do because 
the documentation doesn't seem to cover the problems I'm experiencing.

any help would be most appreciated.

---eric