Definitely the wrong loadlin version... must have zigged when I should have zagged when downloading from debian. Downloaded 1.6c from Hans Lerman's site, and got much further along. Dots... many thing scrolling very quickly, terminating (yes, as in stopping, or even halting) with this (the last two lines are even in red) on the screen:
3w-xxxx: No cards found. raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered. mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice Initializing Cryptographic API NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768) NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 211K freed EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) Looking for MEPIS Linux........................................................ ............................................................................... ............................................................................... ........................ Can't startup filesystem Halting...Posted by Ken Allen at May 3, 2005 6:25 PM