Okay Alex what you did was almost right what you actually need to say is "linux root=speakup_synth xprt" that should do the trick. The instructions to boot linux are a bit out of date I had this problem when I first played with Debian. On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Alex Snow wrote: > I'm trying to boot the sarge boot floppy but I get a kernel pannic bc it > cant find the root. I grabbed the speakup floppy image, wrote it to disk > as instructed, and booted with the commandline linux speakup_synth=txprt > but the kernel pannics saying it cant find the root. > > -- Scott Berry Email: n7zib at bresnan.net
