> My number one stumbling block with Linux seems to be making it boot. > > I've a kernel on the /dev/sda2 partition in the /boot directory, > and it's called vmlinuz. My boot partition doesn't seem to be set > correctly, because it's not booting /dev/sda2 as root. Instead, it > displays "Loading Linux ....", then "boot: " and then > "Loading Linux ...." again in an endless loop.
Is it possible that you have a disk that is bigger than your bios rom knows how to handle? Or that you changed the kernel but didn't run lilo again?