On Thursday 10 March 2005 00:33, Jeff Mikels wrote: > Can someone help me please? I'm trying to install debian on an old laptop > (sony vaio-505g) without a floppy drive and without a cd-rom > drive--therefore, the installation needs to be from hard drive files and > network. > > However, I've tried sarge, 2.6, idepci, woody, and none of the installer > scripts are working for me. Most of them crash with a Kernel Panic telling > me that the root fs can't be mounted on 01:00. > > I've doublechecked the paths and the .bat file and all that, but I can't > get past the root fs mount. > > Anyone willing to coach me? > > Pastor Jeff Mikels > Northwest Baptist Church > My personal weblog > 773-338-1111 ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/installer-i386/current/doc/manual/ <quote> Here is a /etc/lilo.conf example:
image=/boot/newinstall/vmlinuz
label=newinstall
initrd=/boot/newinstall/initrd.gz
root=/dev/ram0
append="devfs=mount,dall ramdisk_size=12000"
For more details, refer to the initrd(4) and lilo.conf(5) man pages. Now run
lilo and reboot.
The procedure for GRUB is quite similar. Locate your menu.lst in
the /boot/grub/ directory (sometimes in the /boot/boot/grub/), add the
following lines:
title New Install
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/newinstall/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk_size=12000
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/newinstall/initrd.gz
</quote>
search there for the kernel params, and change the ramdisk_size=12000 to 32000
just to be on the safe side. ( it solved my problems ).
kfir
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