On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Brook Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 07 February 2003 01:21 pm, Stew Benedict wrote: > > > > huh? > > > > [stew@powerbook stew]$ ls /mnt/cdrom/BootX/ > > initrd-2.4.20-2mdk.img-ext2 Mandrake_Linux_Install.sit > > initrd-2.4.20-2mdk.img-ext3 vmlinuz-2.4.20-2mdk* > > > > Those initrd and vmlinuz are for the installed system. The others are in > > /boot. > > > > Stew Benedict > > Yes indeed. Well hush my pupies. Sorry you would think I would have noticed > something like that. I was looking in the stupid bootx folder that was > extracted from the sit file. Thanks. > > Just one thing. I tell it to use the initrd for the boot image which it does > boot from then it complains about needing to pass init= as an option. I'm > assuming it wants to see something like init=vmlinuz-2.4.20-2mdk. Is this > correct? >
BootX thing. Once you select an initrd, then there is no "Root" option, so you need to specify it in the kernel arguments: root=/dev/sda7 devfs=mount for instance. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.freenode.net #cooker-ppc Archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppc&r=1&w=2
