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   Henrik Carlqvist  wrote:   
   > My guess is that you remember the boot line wrong. In the bootline above   
   > you tell your kernel to use /dev/sdc1 as your root file system. As you   
   > have a root file system you do not need any initrd which would have been   
   > a compressed cpio archive containing your root file system. The "ro"   
   > argument simply tells your kernel to initially mount your root file   
   > system read only and does not in any way belong to the initrd variable.   
      
   Thanks for responding Henrik. I am sure you are right: my memory problem.   
      
   I see from /proc/cmdline when booting from the install disk that   
   nomodeset is hard-wired into the boot command.   
      
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