On 4/29/06, JimD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
kernel /boot/kern[TAB] (grub auto-completes) root=/dev[TAB]
Error 11: Unrecongnized device string.
This is not a problem. The kernel will use an internal mapping to
figure out what the device major and minor number is for /dev/sda1.
It does not depend on anything being in /dev.
The actual /dev on the root filesystem only needs null and console.
Note that udev usually runs on a ramfs or tmpfs filesystem, so all of
the nodes that you see when the system is running exist only in
memory, not on any disk.
Just use root=/dev/sda1, and the system should boot fine.
-Richard
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