-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 No, kernel image labels are not pointing to a part of lilo.conf. Think of them as shortcuts to specifying a kernel image to boot and its parameters. Instead of typing something like vmlinux root=/dev/ram0, just typing ramdisk automatically tells lilo to load the kernel image and pass it the kernel parameters specified in the ramdisk section of lilo.conf. As for your mount question, you're not calling any mount command. All you're doing here is specifying the mount label to lilo, which in turn specifies kernel parameters specific to booting a root file system off a hard disk, as opposed to booting a file system off of a ramdisk. The root=/dev/hda1 is really a kernel parameter called root, which tells the kernel where to find the root file system at. The reason you have to specify it is because the mount label doesn't specify the root parameter, since it naturally won't know where you installed your root file system. Greg On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 11:49:14AM -0700, Debee Norling wrote: > Thank you Greg and Chuck for patiently answering my silly questions. I've > never been one of those people who just likes to memorize commands; I want > to know why I'm typing something! > > So are Kernel image labels pointing to some part of lilo.conf then, and is > this why the commands vary so widely? > > And how can "mount root=/hda1" work for a start command if a kernel has to > load before there's any mount command to call? > > > > -- Debee > (Deborah Norling) > Alternate Media Specialist > DeAnza College > Phone: 408-864-5815 > <MailTo: norlingdeborah at fhda.edu> > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > !DSPAM:40a11fc6197243343921023! > > - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAoSQw7s9z/XlyUyARArH3AJ9xao5UW8HuFLW3z4HVh/GKicS6tgCgp5Ej 7KWJlprhdNU4E69zyjLi0jE= =V16P -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
