Updating YDL 3.0

Daniel Gimpelevich daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us
Fri Feb 11 16:39:45 MST 2005


You're supposed to use root= and/or init= with the pathname to the root or
init, e.g.: root=/dev/sda5

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 16:14:34 -0500, Eric Dunbar wrote:

> Anyway, "root=" seems to crash the system when I use a RAM disk. For
> that matter, I *cannot* get the 2.6.9 .img setting to boot with BootX
> 1.2.2 (should I be using a different version of BootX?). I've also
> tried passing:
> rghb quiet init=
> init=
> init=rghb quiet
> =init
> 
> I do end up getting slightly different screen outputs depending on the
> sequence used but all of them end with the complaint of kernel panic,
> and pass init= to the kernel at boot.
> 
> Only when I do _NOT_ use the .img/RAM disk will the computer boot
> reporting INIT: 2.85. I'm going to give init=2.85 a try.




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