no the kernel mounted fine and i booted it with loadlin...i think it was one of 2 things...the thing said to unzip them into the top level of my HD and i didn't :( my fault...so i gotta spend about another 90 minutes 
uzipping 800 MB's worth of files again :( OR i put in the wrong mount point for root...i put in hda1 which i think is right but i am not sure and dont know how to tell...fdisk wont tell me for a fat32 filesystem for some 
reason

10/31/01 10:52:27 PM, "Thomas Mondoshawan Tate" <phoenix@psy.ed.asu.edu> wrote:

>On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 09:58:46PM -0700, robert jorgenson wrote:
>> I dont know if anyone has ever tried this but if you have you can probably
>> help me :P
>> 
>> i downloaded all the files and unzipped them into c:\bigslack when i was
>> unzipping with plware i got a warning(12) on
>> linux/usr/doc/gimp-1_0.{3i/docs/quick_re.{_e but i dont think that would
>> affect this.
>
>You're right -- it won't cause this particular issue, unless you've recieved
>the same warning on more than just this file. In particular, the ones you'll
>want to be wary of are files located in linux/bin, linux/usr/bin, and
>linux/sbin.
>
>> when i try and boot it i get...
>> 
>> freeing unused kernel memory: 116k freed
>> Warning: unable to open an initial console
>> kernel panic: no init found. try passing init= option to kernel
>> 
>> if anyone can help me with this i am prety much stuck on what to do
>
>Hrm... Are you getting any errors like "VFS: Unable to mount root!" from the
>kernel? Also, how are you attempting to boot the kernel?
>
>-- 
>Thomas "Mondoshawan" Tate
>phoenix@psy.ed.asu.edu
>http://tank.dyndns.org
>