Updating YDL 3.0

Eric Dunbar eric.dunbar at gmail.com
Fri Feb 11 16:53:59 MST 2005


On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:39:45 -0800, Daniel Gimpelevich <daniel at gimpelevich>
wrote:
> You're supposed to use root= and/or init= with the pathname to the root or
> init, e.g.: root=/dev/sda5

I was slowly working my way in that direction ;) -- I'd figured out
that it was supposed to be a path but couldn't get the right one.

What I'd like to know is why is it important to run the RAM disk,
rather than just the kernel 2.6.9*8 as I am doing presently (on my
Beige G3/266)?

Eric.


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