On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Alessandro Lofaro wrote:

> [...] but at some point (after having sensed the ZIP and even a SCSI
> CD-ROM) he ask me "root device ?" and hang up, leaving the keyboard
> ineffective. [...]
> in the installer, I can get the dir whitout problems - excepted an
> "fstab" error

Both of these seem to hint at missing devices.  Did you create them with
the installer before you tried to boot?

--scott