[plug] New install prob

[Christian]

Mark Saxon wrote:

> I am booting form MBR on hda1 and have a second option to boot from the
> boot partition
> on hdc1
> I pass hdc=1661,255,63  to the kernel at boot time.
> My problem is I get a message to say kernel panic no init found.
> I have checked that initab is actually there and tried altering the run
> level.

I've never actually had this problem so I'm not familiar with the error
messages given, but are you giving the corret root filesystem to LILO? 
If you're running a 2.2 kernel then I'm not sure you'll need to pass the
geometry to the kernel on boot... I recently set up a machine with a
13GB disk (as one large partition) and it was 8GB-limited when using
Debian 2.0 packages (and a 2.0 kernel) but doing the install with a 2.2
kernel and then remaking the filesystem with upgraded Debian tools
(mke2fs and cfdisk) completely solved the problem.

Regards,

Christian.