> The easiest way is to make a bootdisk for your system. This can be done
> using either the 'makebootdisk' or the 'mkrescue' command.

Thanks a lot! A boot disk by mkrescue did the trick.

Is it possible that the kernel that was on the other boot floppy (the
generic kernel used by the installation program) was too bare-bone and
simply ignored all the parameters I tried?