Hi at the boot: prompt on the CD, couldn't you just use the root parameters to the kernel? Something like: speakup.i speakup_synth=dectlk root=/dev/hdb1 ro replacing the values for synth and root as appropriate? Or if you don't want to do that, get the speakup.i bootdisk and write it to a floppy, then use: mount speakup_synth=dectlk root=/dev/hdb1 ro again replacing the values as appropriate and at the boot: prompt. HTH On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 06:10:48 -0400 (EDT), Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: >I need help recovering from a real piece of stupidity. A friend >with Windows on her primary drive wanted to install Slackware 9.0 >on a secondary 40 GB drive, and everything went like clockwork >until the stupidity kicked in (my stupidity): > >1. We tried creating a boot floppy when prompted, but it failed >because the floppy was not big enough. and > >2. We installed Lilo on the superblock of the root partition on >the secondary disk instead of the MBR of the primary disk. > >Imagine our surprise when we could not boot into Linux. > >I hope someone has a magic solution for us, so we can get into >the new Linux installation long enough to put Lilo where it >belongs. We have the full CD set for SW 9.0 which includes two >bootable CD's, the installation disk and a nifty rescue disk. Are >there some boot parameters for the loader that can do the trick >for us?
