On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> First the easy part: "03:02" is simply hda2. Look in /dev at the hda*
> entries, and you'll see they are all major number 3, minor number
> corresponding to their ending numbers. So that's your problem -- you
told
> the kernel to look for its root partition on drive hda, partition 2,
and
> then you moved it to hdc, partition 2. Since hda has only one
partition, and
> not even a Linux native, the kernel can't find the root (/) partition
to
> mount it.
>
> What to do about it? Quick fix: at the LILO boot prompt, specify the
option
> "root=/dev/hdc2". Longer-term fix: once you've booted the system,
change the
> line in /etc/lilo.conf from "root=/dev/hda2" to "root=/dev/hdc2" and
re-run
> LILO. (Oh -- since you're using the MBR on D; rather than C:, you need
to be
> careful when running LILO -- I don't know how to tell it to install to
hdc
> instead of hda, but you'll nedd to figure that out.)
boot = /dev/hdc should do it I think. Lilo may complain, but it
should work. :-)
Lawson
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