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RE: [PLUG] Help installing to VAIO SuperSlim...
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beats me, mandrake booted and installed from the cdrom just fine. never
had to mess around with loadlin.
stephen
-- My name is not leroy
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, William Shank wrote:
> i can't boot from the cdrom, but i can/should be able to install from it.
> i'm sending in the same parameters as you, but it dies with the followinf
> message:
>
> Kernel PANIC: No init found. Try passing init= option blah blah blah
>
> it looks like suse didn't put an initrd.img file in the loadlin dir in
> windows. isn't this needed?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: leroy
> To: 'plug@lists.phillylinux.org'
> Sent: 10/19/01 12:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Help installing to VAIO SuperSlim...
>
> so you can't boot from it or you can't install from it? if the install
> starts but then linux yells because it can't find the cdrom, then
> install
> is still possible. i installed mandrake 8.0 on an vaio sr33 so the
> procedure should be the same for yours. you have to append:
>
> ide2=0x180,0x386
>
> to the install initialization parameters to get linux to recognize the
> cdrom.
>
> stephen
>
> -- My name is not leroy
>
> On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, William Shank wrote:
>
> > I finally got my dream laptop, but i'm having trouble getting linux
> > installed. vaio R505TS, it has winME by default. i'm using suse72 and
> i have
> > pcmcia cdrom that works in windows and linux (tried on another
> machine) but
> > can't boot from it. i got loadlin installed in c:\loadlin and
> installed a
> > winME patch to allow booting to dos. i can get loadlin to start from
> dos,
> > but it kernel panics looking for init= parameters, no init found?
> >
> > can anyone help me out here? i usually install from boot disk/cdrom,
> so this
> > is foreign to me.
> >
> > thanks
> > Chris
> >
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