From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.rdc2.mi.home.com(ha2.rdc2.mi.home.com[24.2.68.69]) (2676 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 20:02:00 -0500 (EST) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from C549698A ([24.14.165.58]) by mail.rdc2.mi.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20001106010203.EDTJ28435.mail.rdc2.mi.home.com@C549698A> for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:03 -0800 Message-ID: <006b01c0478d$e0f223e0$3aa50e18@muskgn1.mi.home.com> From: "Chris Schulte" To: References: <3.0.6.32.20001105123742.007b2100@mail.ufw2.com> <3.0.6.32.20001105155947.007b3220@mail.ufw2.com> Subject: Re: installed rh 6.2 from talking bootdisk, but it's kernel refuses to work properly when copied in from the bootdisk Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 20:07:03 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 List-Id: This is the exact error I was having atempting to mount disk drives. Let me guess, the kernel that boots is version 2.2.1450. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brent Harding" To: Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 4:59 PM Subject: Re: installed rh 6.2 from talking bootdisk, but it's kernel refuses to work properly when copied in from the bootdisk > No, it boots, having dad help me the first time, the nonspeakup kernel it > installed booted, but the speakup kernel gives errors, and gives a message > saying enter root password for maintenance or press ctrl-d to start > normally. Pressing that says automatic reboot in progress, and it does so. > This was using loadlin with the kernel of the rh boot disk. When I try to > mount once I get to maintenance mode, it says /dev/fd0, wrong major or > minor number. It does this with any partition I choose to mount, including > my dos one. > At 08:38 AM 11/6/00 +1100, you wrote: > >Hi: > > > >hmmmm. OK, does it actually end up booting or does it grind to a halt? I > >would have thought that you'd need to do a rdev on the kernel so that it > >would use the hard drive as the root device as opposed to the floppy, but > >I've never used redhat. You out there, Bill? > > > >Geoff. > > > > > >-- > >Geoff Shang > >ICQ number 43634701 > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >