Folks, I need a little help getting my Bering CD going,
if you please.

I tried to follow Luis Correia's clear and excellent 
instructions for changing from a floppy Bering 1.2 system
to a CD version.  I must not really have followed
the directions, because although everything seemed to work 
fine, it doesn't boot.

The boot sequence goes fine until it tries to read the
packages, and then tries going to the floppy instead of
the CD.  The boot messages look like (hand copy)
Freeing unused kernel memory: 64k freed
LINUXRC: Bering - Initrd - V1.2
Using /boot/lib/modules/cdrom.o
Mounting a 6M TMPFS filesystem ...
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
LINUXRC: Could not mount the boot device.  Can't install packages
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

The beginning of my isolinux.cfg file is:
display syslinux.dpy
timeout 0
default linux initrd=initrd.lrp init=/linuxrc rw root=/dev/ram0
  boot=/dev/cdrom:iso9660 PKGPATH=/dev/cdrom:iso9660,/dev/fd0:msdos
  LRP=root, ...
(line beginning with default is all one long line)

This happened when there was no floppy at all in the drive.  If
I put a floppy without any packages on it into the drive, then
I get additional errors complaining that it cannot find the
packages on the floppy.

OK, it sure looks like I have something wrong with
"PKGPATH=" but I cannot see what.  Is it possibly because
I did not but a line break just before LRP= ?  Is there something
else I should know but do not?

Thanks in advance for your help.




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