Having acquired Potato, and being unable to boot from the CD, I wrote the disk images in /images-1.44/udma66 (I use IDE devices, and was in doubt; figured ide support wouldn't hurt and thought it applied to post-install). Boot from rescue.bin diskette, enter "linux" at boot: prompt. Much scrolls by, until this happens: floppy0: no floppy controllers found md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 <hda5 hda6 hda7> hde: [PTBL] [7476/255/63] hde1 VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press ENTER *I enter disk from root.bin image request_module[block-major-2]: Root fs not mounted apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.13) apm: disabled on user request. VFS: Insert root floppy and press enter *I press enter request_module[block-major-2]: Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device 02:00 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs 02:00
Sorry about the double message; hotmail grew to hate me and my indiscriminate use of the tab button. I have tried multiple diskettes here, although it doesn't appear to be a diskette failure. Any ideas? thanks - Matthias _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]