[CentOS] Re: centos on ebox

Thu May 29 19:13:18 UTC 2008
Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com>

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