so I should do root=initrd.gz speakup_synth=txprt? On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 05:11:27PM -0700, Scott Berry wrote: > 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 instructions to boot linux are a bit out of date I had this problem when 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid back.
