From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.ufw2.com([216.163.19.158]) (2086 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:01:17 -0500 (EST) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from [216.163.21.20] by gate.ufw2.com for speakup@braille.uwo.ca id PAA08704; Sun Nov 5 15:58:41 2000 Received: from hardb ([216.163.21.59]) by mail.ufw2.com (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA06229 for ; Sun, 05 Nov 2000 15:59:59 -0600 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20001105155947.007b3220@mail.ufw2.com> X-Sender: bharding@mail.ufw2.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 15:59:47 -0600 Subject: Re: installed rh 6.2 from talking bootdisk, but it's kernel refuses to work properly when copied in from the bootdisk In-Reply-To: References: <3.0.6.32.20001105123742.007b2100@mail.ufw2.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca From: Brent Harding List-Id: 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 > > >