What is /dev/ram

[Philip Larkin Waters]

Title: Re: Got this far on a 7100/80

so I edited lilo.conf (for some reason there are two of them on my system, i edited both, because the first didn't seem to have any effect: set rootdev=/dev/ram)   When I reboot: "Cannot open root device "ram" or 01:00      what is /dev/ram   and what is /dev/sb.... whatever ..5 that I got before?   and what does set rootdev mean?   ----- Original Message ----- From: Clive Menzies To: Philip Larkin Waters ; debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 9:46 AM Subject: Re: Got this far on a 7100/80 At 9:06 am -0700 15/1/03, Philip Larkin Waters wrote: What is Woody? Woody is the current stable release of Debian (Version 3.0).  see http://www.debian.org/releases.  The previous version 2.0 is Potato. Testing is Sarge and Unstable is Sid.  All characters from Toy Story ;-) Regards Clive At 5:05 pm -0700 14/1/03, Philip Larkin Waters wrote: So, I used the Mach Kernel and the Apple Bootloader and I actually got some results!   It was kinda cool... in any event I got the following error:   VFS Cannot open root device sdb5 or 08:15 Please appand a correct "root=" boot option   kernel panic VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:15     on a 7100/80 what is the correct root= option and how do I set it? Open lilo.conf on the Mac side - you can use Control Panels/MkLinux and select Custom set rootdev=/dev/ram And it should boot you into the installation screen you can then install woody from the net. Good luck Clive -- Clive Menzies & Associates Limited strategies for business http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk 75 Priory Road, London N8 8LR d/l: 020 8348 0996 fax: 087 0705 2066