I just got back to this system to read my email and in the interim, I read about the "initrd" comand and how initrds work. I added initrd=/boot/initrd to my Grub command list and that worked.
Thanks to everyone. On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, Mario Klebsch wrote: > On Sunday, 30. September 2001 17:34, Bob Berman wrote: > > I am sure that this is the problem. But I have another Linux > > install on the same machine and that boots fine, although > > it is SuSe 7.0 vs. this one is SuSe 7.2. This was an > > initial install from CD and I had never booted it before. > > Now I have to figure out some way to boot it. > > As someone else has already written, you probably do not boot the > initial ram disk. The initial ram disk is an additional file system, > which is used as a temporary root filesystem prior to mounting the real > root filesystem. This ram disk somtimes does contain drivers needed to > mount the root filesystem. > > Allthough this IMHO is broken by design and a popular source of > trouble, linux included it to allow distributions without custom > kernels. GRUB does have an option to load the initial ramdisk, but I > cannot tell you about it, because I do not use it. I suppose, the GRUB > documentation will contain some hints about the initial RAM disk. > > I would just boot your first linux system and build a kerlen which > includes the drivers needed. This kernel can be put on a floppy disk or > bootet via grub or lilo. > > 73, Mario > -- > Mario Klebsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] > PGP-Key available at http://www.klebsch.de/public.key > Fingerprint DSS: EE7C DBCC D9C8 5DC1 D4DB 1483 30CE 9FB2 A047 9CE0 > Diffie-Hellman: D447 4ED6 8A10 2C65 C5E5 8B98 9464 53FF 9382 F518 > > ------------ Output from pgp ------------ > Pretty Good Privacy(tm) Version 6.5.8 > (c) 1999 Network Associates Inc. > Uses the RSAREF(tm) Toolkit, which is copyright RSA Data Security, Inc. > Export of this software may be restricted by the U.S. government. > File is signed. signature not checked. > Signature made 2001/09/30 18:47 GMT > key does not meet validity threshold. > WARNING: Because this public key is not certified with a trusted > signature, it is not known with high confidence that this public key > actually belongs to: "(KeyID: 0xA0479CE0)". > > _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub