On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Ben Stallings wrote:
> Hello again, folks. Last week I decided Mandrake 8.1 just wasn't new
> enough for me now that I have a cable modem, so I downloaded the 8.2 CDs,
> repartitioned my drive, and attempted to install the new version. Got a
> kernel panic -- can't mount root partition -- a few seconds into loading
> the installer. Here's what I've tried so far:
You might want to try appending mem= to the boot prompt. (I.e., for
256mb of RAM, "mem=256M".) I seem to recall hearing of that fixing that
problem. Worth a shot...
> Anyway, I'm realizing that the bigger problem here is that I'm not enough
> of a geek to figure out what's going on.
Pfft. We all started somewhere.
Jima