let me guess, you haven't tried the boot parameter root=/dev/hda2 if you
On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 17:49, John P. Looney wrote:
>  Turns out that you can't have your /boot filesystem ext3, and the
> /boot/vmlinux.gz file has to be a gzipped vmlinux file (not a vmlinuz one,
> which though obvious...isn't, when you've been hitting your head off a
>  Also, when you mkfs a filesystem that's called "/boot", as far as the
> redhat /etc/fstab is concerned, it wipes that, so when you boot a rescue
> CD, it doesn't mount /dev/hda1 as /boot, and doesn't inform you of this.
>  (so, it's dead easy to work away on /mnt/sysimage/boot thinking you are
> working on /dev/hda1, and wondering why no matter what you do, nothing
>  Aaaaanyway. I have it booting the redhat kernel. But, the kernel isn't
> loading root as /dev/hda2 - it keeps mounting /dev/hda1.
>  Curiously, when I go into the boot prom, an use
>  "set_params" I can tell it to mount /dev/hda2 as root. But then it uses
> the PROM copy of the kernel (dodgy 2.2.16 kernel), which doesn't know
>  rdev on the vmlinux file, before gzipping doesn't work. I assume you
> can't run rdev on the gzipped version. Any other ideas on how to tell a
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