On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 15:16, Marco Gerards wrote: > "Aaron P. Martinez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > > Next i used 'kernel /vmlinuz' and it recognized my kernel and then i > > typed 'boot' but it kernel panicked saying it couldn't mount root fs on > > 48:05. I'm pretty lost and was under the impression that this would be > > quite easy. I could leave the system as a lilo system, but i prefer the > > grub bootloader. Can anyone offer some advice? > > You need to tell the kernel the device name of the root device, > something like: > > kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 I need to do this when i'm put back at the grub prompt? So there isn't any easy way, when i have the machine booted up under lilo, to tell it to use grub again, reboot and have things back the way they were originally? > > Perhaps you also have to load an initial ramdisk, that depends on the > GNU/Linux distribution you are using.
Sorry, i fogot that info. I'm running, for my test, RH 2.1 ES, i will be doing this procedure on a RH 8.0 machine. > > -- > Marco > Aaron P. Martinez _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
