At the kernel commandline prompt, something like: root=/dev/hdb1 might work. On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, 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? > > Many thanks for any suggestion, and I promise to work hard on my > stupidity. > > Chuck > >
