Re: 8.1 Install - Partitioning problems

Inhabitant of Zion wrote:

Hello,

>Thanks for that did as you said but still no joy.
>
>when i do mkinitrd it returns:
>no kernal image "vmlinuz.shipped"
>  
>
that doens't matter. There is no vmlinuz.shipped.  More important
is that mkinitrd makes an initrd for vmlinuz.

>Any ideas as the only way i can boot it is from the boot CD
>
the aboot.conf line was for my machine. Maybe you have to adjust
the root-device. My /boot is on /dev/hda1, therefore initrd=initrd is ok.
Maybe you have to adjust this to.

>>could you boot the installed system with the boot-cd? If so, is there a 
>>/boot/initrd?
>>There wasn't one on my machine. A "mkinitrd" an add initrd=initrd to the 
>>/etc/aboot.conf file
>>
>>0:1/vmlinuz-2.4.19 ro root=/dev/sda3 initrd=initrd
>>
>>solves that.
>>
Michael