Thanks Ryan! I will try and fix that. Any suggestions as to how I can get Mandrake booted at all? Starting vi in root rescue mode? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan Boder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Aaron Stechesen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 10:06 AM Subject: Re[2]: Still have the same problem
> > > > > > > Just how would I launch it if I need to. Do I even need to? does the "," > > need to be "."? > > > What he is saying is that with the yaboot.conf you have you will be unable > to boot into failsafe mode because you have a '.' where you should have a > ','. He was assuming this was a typo though in your email and that youe > yaboot.conf is actually ok. The line for initrd in yaboot.conf for failsafe > mode should read > > initrd=hd:8,/boot/initrd.img > ^ > | > | > > (See the weird looking arrow I made trying to pint at the comma) > > If you have a dot there instead od a comma you will not be able to boot > failsafe. > > Hope that helps. > > -- > Ryan Boder > http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~rtb > >
