At 20:36 08/07/01 +0100, willie fleming wrote:
>Allan
>
>try the following first
>
>boot into Linux using the CD (Dunno how this is done in Redhat, I presume
its
>similar to SuSE "Boot Installed system" in YAST)
Unfortunately not - this is spookily fresh in my memory as my primary HD
died on Thursday so I had to reinstall MSWindoze (don't ask) and Lilo on a
fresh disk - The install kernel image does not recognise a "root=..."
option, and the /dev on the initrd ramdisk doesn't have any IDE devices. In
plain english....it's really hard to reinstall lilo from the stock RH distro.
For me, anyway. Maybe I was doing something stupid.
I eventually rebooted with the linuxcare bootable business card I got at
one of the SLUG meets using the existing root partition....
LILO: linux root=/dev/hdb2
....Despite the fact that it was a RH7.1 (kernel 2.4.x) and the linuxcare
CD is a 2.2.x kernel it all booted up OK (a few messages about symbols on
modules which shouldn't be a problem unless you've got some weird SCSI
setup). I ran lilo, rebooted and hey presto!
Obviously, you probably don't have a LinuxCare cd card handy....try
downloading TomsRootBoot floppy (http://www.toms.net/rb/) and running with
the appropriate command line.
Let us know how you get on....
Colin
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