On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 22:21:37 -0700 Alan Dayley wrote: > On Saturday 09 October 2004 10:13 pm, Dennis Kibbe wrote: > > > > Don't know, but I'm rarely in favor of using an older distro. Why give up > > all that progress! > > I also don't want something older. BUT.. > > Slack 8 root floppy (color.gz) worked! BUT... > > The command line I used at boot was: > > ramdisk floppy=thinkpad root=/dev/fd0 > > The previous error about the "Please set the root= option" triggered that > thought. Now I think I should go try that with Slack 10 boot and root disks. > This I will now do. > > > This post might give you some ideas. Basically, booting a kernel on the > > hdd (rather than a floppy) seemed to have some success for this person. > > I think you forgot the reference to the post. :^) > > Alan Ah, invisible ink, perhaps? http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/1997/05/msg00999.html Dennisk --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss