Re: #1, make it boot. Engage.

[salwen@phys2.harvard.edu]

> My number one stumbling block with Linux seems to be making it boot.
>
> I've a kernel on the /dev/sda2 partition in the /boot directory,
> and it's called vmlinuz.   My boot partition doesn't seem to be set
> correctly, because it's not booting /dev/sda2 as root.  Instead, it
> displays "Loading Linux ....", then "boot: " and then 
> "Loading Linux ...." again in an endless loop. 

Is it possible that you have a disk that is bigger than your bios rom
knows how to handle?  Or that you changed the kernel but didn't run lilo
again?