Subject: Re: I'm stuck
From: Christopher C. Chimelis (chris@debian.org)
Date: Wed Jul 12 2000 - 20:40:00 PDT
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Rob Byrnes wrote:
> I have finally got to installing Debian on my Cabriolet. Where I am stuck
> id at the reboot point after dbootstrap is run and base is installed. I am
> using ARC and milo to boot the machine, and my disk is laid out as follows:
>
> hda1 - 5 meg for bootloader (milo ... but its not there yet)
> hda3 - swap
> hda4 - /var
> hda5 - /
> hda6 - /usr
>
> If I boot from a floppy into milo, whats the incantation to get Linux to
> boot from hda5?
At the milo prompt, type:
boot hda5:/vmlinux.gz root=/dev/hda5
Substitute "vmlinux.gz" for the kernel filename and location that you have
on your drive. MILO should let you ls the drive to double-check the
filename.
Congrats on the install of Debian :-) Enjoy :-)
C
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