On Tuesday 10 June 2003 03:32, Chuck Gelm wrote: > I just booted the slackware-9.0-iso on a rather old > Compaq Deskpro 2000 (pentium 120 MHz with f00f bug), > did a 'dmesg|head' and found this: > > Kernel command line: > BOOT_IMAGE=/kernels/bare.i/bzImage initrd=initrd.img load_ramdisk=1 \ > prompt_ramdisk=0 ramdisk_size=6464 rw root=/dev/ram SLACK_KERNEL=bare.i > > So, somehow, when the system boots from CDROM, its pwd=/isolinux/ > because there is no path in 'initrd=initrd.img', but there is a path > in 'BOOT_IMAGE=/kernels/bare.i/bzImage'. > > Is there a way to copy the CDROM's root filesystem to /dev/hdb1 > and alter the default 'scsi.s' bootdisk so that it loads the root > image from /dev/hdb1? rdev? > > Can the boot files be copied to /dev/hdb1 and the 'scsi.s' > bootdisk be altered to boot /dev/hdb1/kernels/scsi.s/bzImage > and the root /dev/hdb1/isolinux/initrd.img? > > Then the CDROM and be mounted on the SCSI CDROM drive and > the install begun. > > Heck, why not copy /isolinux/*, /kernels/scsi.s/*, & /slackware/* > to /dev/hdb1?
As i explained in my last mail, it dont work like that. > Wondering... Chuck -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/ - 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
