It seems to be a problem with linloader (0.35). I tried Russel King's old trusty !Linux (3.38). Now booting works fine (even with root=/dev/ram). After that I played a bit around with the Simms. I tried the following combinations (Sim0/Sim1) with linloader:
does not even boot the kernel: -/16M -/64M boots the kernel but does not find initrd: 16M/8M 64M/64M everything works: 16M/- 64M/- Maybe I will habe a look at the linloader source later. Peter Teichmann
