Jerry Geis wrote: >> >> Jerry Geis wrote: >> >>/ >> />>/ now do: >> />>/ >> />>/ i586 text mem=128 >> />>/ >> />>/ />/ when I do "i586 text mem=128" it says cant find kernel >> />/ so I do "linux i586 text mem=128" and I get the same behavior >> />/ Loading vmlinuz.... >> />/ Loading initrd.... >> />/ and reboot. >> />/ />/ Am I not correctly specifying the kernel yet? >> />/ / >> Are you sure this is a CD-1 and not a ServerCD ??? >> >> i586 text >> >> THAT should work >> > Sure enough I had the centos 4 server CD, I looked deaper and got the > CD disk 1 out of my pack > and "i586 text" does a BUNCH more... thanks. > > Now I see on the screen that hda is discovered on the IDE interface as > a 1 GIG device. > The last 2 lines printed are: > > Cannot open root device "<NULL>" or unknown block (8,3) > kernel panic not syncing unable to mount root. > > What do I do with that? > > Everything above that looks normal as detect PS/2 etc... > > Jerry > I am booting now with "i586 text mem=128M root=/dev/hda" and I am well into the menus of installing now... Thanks all for the suggestions. Jerry