From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.ufw2.com([216.163.19.158]) (2435 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 17:55:14 -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 QAA29365; Tue Nov 7 16:54:58 2000 Received: from hardb ([216.163.21.59]) by mail.ufw2.com (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA06805 for ; Tue, 07 Nov 2000 16:55:18 -0600 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20001107165611.007ae310@mail.ufw2.com> X-Sender: bharding@mail.ufw2.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 16:56:11 -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: <20001107200956.F25824@gotss.eu.org> 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: You can't bring the kernel up this way from the hard drive, if linux were the only OS, could you? At 08:09 PM 11/7/00 +1100, you wrote: >The rdev setting is only used in the kernel image when none is given to the >kernel by loadlin lilo grub silo or another loader. The rdev bytes in the kernel >are for if you bring the kernel up off a floppy with no boot loader it knows >what the default root device is. > >Regards, Kerry >On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 08:38:46AM +1100, Geoff Shang 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 > >-- >-- >Kerry Hoath: kerry@gotss.eu.org >Alternates: kerry@emusys.com.au kerry@gotss.spice.net.au or khoath@lis.net.au >ICQ UIN: 62823451 > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > >