Ubuntu

I started to use awstats for creating the site statistics on our server. After installing the ubuntu package, there are still a few things that I had to do:

Usually you change the default runlevel by editing /etc/inittab. However, sometimes you boot into runlevel 3 (e.g. by selecting safe mode from the grub menu) and then want to change to runlevel 5. This you accomplish on the fly with the command: telinit 5

I am trying to get Ubuntu 5.04 or Debian 3.1 running on the original PB G3 (aka Kanga aka 3500). The only problem: the screen is blank after the inital reboot after the installation. Nothing at all (Ubuntu) or only an inverted penguin (Debian). The boot process continues only if one copies over the ramdisk image from the /boot folder onto the HFS partition and specifies it as boot argument. Might it be that the root=/dev/hda8 (in my case the root partition is hda8) is somehow not recognized?