SORRY!! Please disregard. I found it right in front of my nose. 'rdev'...........................................................
Duh... On 11-22, Hal MacArgle wrote: > Greetings: Several weeks ago I changed from two drives, /hda and > /hdb, with the hdb drive setup to boot using LILO.. (All partitions > on both drives Linux or Swap, no other o/s.) The /hda drive was > needed elsewhere so I changed the entry in fstab so that the old hdb > was now hda and it's been working fine booting from the HD.. > (At least it seems so.) :^)... > > I thought I had better make a recover disk so I tried both dd and cat > copying /vmlinuz to the floppy and neither one will boot, "kernel > panic." It's looking for hdb according to the screen report and I'm > wondering why does it boot OK from the HD but not the floppy.. > > Can someone suggest something or steer me to a man/s/, whatever, to > help?? I've never had an occasion to do this before... > > TIA and cheers, > > Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 8.0 (2.4.13) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > NON ILLEGITIMI CARBORUNDUM > . - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs