Subject: RE: Tap tap tap, this thing on?
From: Gary McKinney (gmckinney@megabits.net)
Date: Fri Jan 26 2001 - 20:26:07 PST
Try the following command to see if it will bring up the kernel for you:
boot fd0:linux root=/dev/fd0 rw ramdisk_size=5120 load_ramdisk=1
prompt_ramdisk=1
all on one line...
Attached are the instructional notes I made when I installed the slink
version on my PC164 (which has sense been upgraded to Potato)...
ymmv
gm...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Ogden [mailto:bob@contact.omen.com.au]
> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 5:39 AM
> To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Tap tap tap, this thing on?
>
>
>
> In <20010126092819.A24656@murphy.nl>, on 26/Jan/2001
> at 09:28 AM,(+0100 GMT)
> Paul Slootman <paul@debian.org> said:
>
> >On Fri 26 Jan 2001, elijah wright wrote:
> >>
> >> > so when I do boot fd0:linux.gz root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk it
> should work?
> >>
> >> shouldn't there be a swap_disk flag or something in there for
> the floppy
> >> installer? i can't remember the name of it off the top of my head, but
> >> there's a kernel flag missing here.
>
> >prompt_ramdisk=1 I believe
>
> >Otherwise it tries to use to boot floppy for the ramdisk image.
>
> Tried that too. Not much difference in result to tell the truth. Even
> without prompt_ramdisk=1 it prompts for the ramdisk. I'm going to have to
> start being methodical and logging everything I try and what result I get
> else I'm going to start (have been) chasing my own tail :).
>
> >Paul Slootman
>
>
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