On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 12:36:16AM -0500, Marc Horowitz wrote: > I have an ss10 with a cdrom drive and no floppy. I used jigdo to > download and burn a 3.0 cdrom image, which worked without a hitch. > When I put the media in and boot it, SILO loads, and I hit enter to > load the default kernel image. the kernel boots, then things stop > working so perfectly: > <snip> > > The host is obviously seeing the cdrom drive. The kernel appears to > be seeing and loading proper drivers for the cdrom drive. But it's > loading the root fs from the wrong place. /boot/silo.conf has an > initrd line which points to a file which contains a compressed ext2 fs > root image, as I would expect, but the systme doesn't appear to be > loading it. > > Does anybody have any suggestions? I just type 'rescue' at the CD's SILO prompt and install successfully from there. I can't seem to use it as an actual rescue CD, though :( -- Nate Campi http://www.campin.net "There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy S. Anderson
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