How to boot w/o initrd?

["Matthew T. Atkinson" <matthew@agrip.org.uk>]

'ello,

I had a stock Sarge install with kernel-image-2.6.7.  I have now managed
to recompile 2.6.8 (Debian version) and install it, in an attempt to fix
the ALSA and keyboard problems (and learn something about the insides of
my computer).  Now my system won't boot.  I am told that the initrd
image is missing (not surprising as I have not compiled support for it,
or created one, in 2.6.8).

I tried the advertised ``old'' option on YaBoot, to see if like
GRUB/LILO it would fall back to the previous kernel so I could boot the
system, but it still tried to boot into 2.6.8 (and failed).

How can I get the system to boot?  From the output ``help'' gives, it
doesn't seem like there is a way to edit boot parameters from inside
YaBoot.

bye just now, best regards,


P.S. I am using a PowerBook5,4
-- 
Matthew T. Atkinson <matthew@agrip.org.uk>