Re: Trouble with pivotroot while installing on 1998 Powerbook G3

2003-05-31 Thread Ted Lemon
I was able to track down the solution on the Club Mandrake bulletin board once I figured out that Search didn't work. The problem was that I was booting a ramdisk from the BootX.sit archive, because I didn't realize that /boot/all.gz was a ramdisk. Sorry for asking such a basic question her

Re: Trouble with pivotroot while installing on 1998 Powerbook G3

2003-05-31 Thread Ted Lemon
There are only 2 install kernels in 9.1. Your output looks like you are using one of the kernels/initrd's for the installed system. The install kernels, initrd are in /boot or in the BootX .sit file: I got the install kernel out of the BootX .sit file. It seems completely plausible that I am

Trouble with pivotroot while installing on 1998 Powerbook G3

2003-05-30 Thread Ted Lemon
I'm having trouble getting a BootX-loaded kernel to get to the point of doing an install. I've set up BootX to boot one of the non-BenH kernels off of the install CD, and I've set it up to install a RAMdisk image that corresponds to that kernel. The parameters I am passing in are just what