On Wed, 31 Dec 1969, Mike Hesse wrote:
>Yes it did, my Linux is on hdb2
>
>I went in, added a user, & then did the following to try create a boot disk
>dd if=/boot/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 bs=8192
>
>This boots and I then get then the following error
>
>VFS: Cannot open root device 08:05
>Kernel panic : VFS : Unable to mount root fs 05:05
And Linux thinks your root is on /dev/hdb5.
At this point you probably should use the rdev command on the floppy
image of the kernel. All rdev does is to set that image's idea of what
the root device should be.
As root, put the boot floppy in the drive and do:
# rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hdb2
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