You can't bring the kernel up this way from the hard drive, if linux were the only OS, could you? At 08:09 PM 11/7/00 +1100, you wrote: >The rdev setting is only used in the kernel image when none is given to the >kernel by loadlin lilo grub silo or another loader. The rdev bytes in the kernel >are for if you bring the kernel up off a floppy with no boot loader it knows >what the default root device is. > >Regards, Kerry >On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 08:38:46AM +1100, Geoff Shang 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 > >-- >-- >Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.eu.org >Alternates: kerry at emusys.com.au kerry at gotss.spice.net.au or khoath at lis.net.au >ICQ UIN: 62823451 > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > >
