install complete, but boot disk don't work

[Jim Ruby]

Ok, I got speach, but it goes for a bit and stops.  I do have speech but the strange thing now is it is looking at /deb/hda7 I have no hda7.  I have everything on hdb and redhat set this all up itself.
Here is what it setup
hdb1 is a small partision, not sure what this is
hdb2 is the root and largest partision
hdb3 is the swap

On the boot disk there is a syslinux.cfg file.  here is the contants below.
default linux
prompt 1
display boot.msg
timeout 100
label linux
	kernel vmlinuz
	append initrd=initrd.img root=/dev/hdb2

Should there be more
to install the system I used the following bat file
loadlin autoboot\vmlinuz initrd=autoboot\initrd.img text devfs=nomount speakup_synth=ltlk text

I noticed the mistake of having to 'text' keywords. don't think that would hurt.


On Wed, 5 Sep 2001 12:31:59 -0400 (EDT), Janina Sajka wrote:

>Jim:
>
>What's telling linux what speech synthesizer you have? You need to have 
>specified that somewhere if you are going to hear speech. The fact that 
>you did it to get the install started isn't going to be remembered. That 
>command is regarded as temporary.
>
>Fortunately, a very similar command should help fix things. Try:
>
>vmlinuz speakup_synth=[your.synth.keyword]
>
>obviously replacing [your.synth.keyword] with the appropriate 
>designator--ltlk for the litetalk, etc.
>
>When do you do this? Quite the same way as with the install--when the boot 
>disk pauses.
>
>PS: When you get tired of doing this by hand, we can talk about 
>streamlining it. You really should, it's a lot easier on you.
>
>PSS: There's no such thing as a D:> drive in linux. To paraphrase The 
>Borg: "This is not a linux designation."
>
>
>Sep 2001, Jim Ruby wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Ok, I have installed redhat roswell on drive d, all seemed to go ok, but it was a bit hard to tell what selection at times because speakup would read the entire line instead of the selected option.  At any rate I 
choose 
>> not to use a boot loader so created a boot floppy, but the boot keeps failing.  What did I do wrong.  I let redhat format drive d and auto set it up.
>> 
>> Any ideas on how to get in to the linux/redhat on my d drive?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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