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From: AGottinger@... (Achim Gottinger)
Subject: Re: Latest boot disk
Date: Tue May 1 09:42:02 2001
Tze John Tang wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I downloaded the latest bootdisk image, and the rescue-lvm.gz files.
> I used rawrite to write them to floppies.  I boot off the boot disk,
> and select the 1st option in the grub menu, which is to boot the
> rescue image off of the floppy.  I then get prompted for the rescue
> disk, and I place that in the drive.  Drivers continue to load, and
> then I get prompted to put the root disk into the drive... which disk
> is this?  I tried both of the disks, and it results in a kernel
> panic.
> 
You must use the bootdisk until you are asked for the root disk and
insert the recue disk at this point.

bye achim~

> Thanks for any help.
> 
> -tj
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