Grr!

[Ben Pfaff]

Edward Glowacki <glowack2@msu.edu> writes:

> OK, the new laptop is here and I'm trying to install Debian on it
> by booting from a DOS boot disk, then running loadlin from my WinME
> partition.  Unfortunately it kernel panics because it can't mount
> the root FS.
> 
> I'm using the standard boot disks from the "testing" distribution
> and the command:
> 
> loadlin linux root=/dev/ram initrd=root.bin disksize=1.44

This is confusing.  Have you installed already, or not?  If you
have already installed, then you don't want to use a ramdisk or
initrd, and the loadlin command should be more like
	loadlin linux root=/dev/hda2
where you replace hda2 by the device and partition you want to
boot from.  On the other hand, if you haven't installed yet, then
you want to just boot from a boot disk or CD-ROM.
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