more about my debian installer problems

[Ameer Armaly]

Hmm; are you sure the config can handle initrds and ramdisks?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow at gmx.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: more about my debian installer problems


> no that fails also. the floppy boots fine and I get speach but the
> kernel panics when I hit enter after inserting the rootdisk without
> even reading the floppy.
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 11:50:37AM -0500, Alex
> Snow wrote:
> > thanks. I'll give that a try.
> > On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 11:04:51AM -0500,
> > Ameer Armaly wrote:
> > > how about this:
> > > get an older rescue disk
> > > put the new kernel on it
> > > run ./rdev.sh
> > > might do something; it configures the kernel for booting.
> > > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow at gmx.net>
> > > To: "speakup" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 9:52 AM
> > > Subject: Re: more about my debian installer problems
> > >
> > >
> > > > Is speakup on the netinst cd?
> > > > On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 09:48:47AM -0500,
> > > > Alex Snow wrote:
> > > > > Ok after a little playing I was able to read more of the error
message.
> > > > > it says unable to open root device. the command I gave it was
linux
> > > > > speakup_synth=txprt. the root it wants is /dev/ram/0.
> > > > >
> > > > > -- 
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