This is the exact error I was having atempting to mount disk drives. Let me guess, the kernel that boots is version 2.2.1450. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brent Harding" <bharding@xxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 4:59 PM Subject: Re: installed rh 6.2 from talking bootdisk, but it's kernel refuses to work properly when copied in from the bootdisk > No, it boots, having dad help me the first time, the nonspeakup kernel it > installed booted, but the speakup kernel gives errors, and gives a message > saying enter root password for maintenance or press ctrl-d to start > normally. Pressing that says automatic reboot in progress, and it does so. > This was using loadlin with the kernel of the rh boot disk. When I try to > mount once I get to maintenance mode, it says /dev/fd0, wrong major or > minor number. It does this with any partition I choose to mount, including > my dos one. > At 08:38 AM 11/6/00 +1100, you 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 <gshang10 at scu.edu.au> > >ICQ number 43634701 > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
