From: Jacob Schmude <jschmude@adelphia.net>
To: norlingdeborah@fhda.edu,
"Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
<speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Newbie questions about booting Slackware
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 14:58:34 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0405111453240.21805@beavis.screwball> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <KGELKDLELCJGNIJNOCMMIEOHDCAA.NorlingDeborah@fhda.edu>
Hi
On Tue, 11 May 2004, Debee Norling wrote:
> So are Kernel image labels pointing to some part of lilo.conf then, and is
> this why the commands vary so widely?
In a sense, yes. Kernel image labels are what LILO uses to tell the system
which kernel to load. You don't type in the image file name to lilo, you
use its label. Labels can do all sorts of things, passing certain
kernel parameters based on the label is quite common. They differ widely
because different distributions have different labels they like to use.
> And how can "mount root=/hda1" work for a start command if a kernel has to
> load before there's any mount command to call?
In this case, the kernel image you're loading is labeled "mount". You're
not actually issuing a mount command, that's simply what the kernel image
is labeled. The root=/dev/hda1 is a parameter which tells the kernel where
your root partition is.
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