This worked just perfect, thanks everybody for the feedback - now I just
need to try and get my modem working
Cheers
Allan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin McKinnon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 8:59 AM
Subject: Re: [scottish] Boot
> At 20:36 08/07/01 +0100, willie fleming wrote:
> >Allan
> >
> >try the following first
> >
> >boot into Linux using the CD (Dunno how this is done in Redhat, I presume
> its
> >similar to SuSE "Boot Installed system" in YAST)
>
> Unfortunately not - this is spookily fresh in my memory as my primary HD
> died on Thursday so I had to reinstall MSWindoze (don't ask) and Lilo on a
> fresh disk - The install kernel image does not recognise a "root=..."
> option, and the /dev on the initrd ramdisk doesn't have any IDE devices.
In
> plain english....it's really hard to reinstall lilo from the stock RH
distro.
>
> For me, anyway. Maybe I was doing something stupid.
>
> I eventually rebooted with the linuxcare bootable business card I got at
> one of the SLUG meets using the existing root partition....
>
> LILO: linux root=/dev/hdb2
>
> ....Despite the fact that it was a RH7.1 (kernel 2.4.x) and the linuxcare
> CD is a 2.2.x kernel it all booted up OK (a few messages about symbols on
> modules which shouldn't be a problem unless you've got some weird SCSI
> setup). I ran lilo, rebooted and hey presto!
>
> Obviously, you probably don't have a LinuxCare cd card handy....try
> downloading TomsRootBoot floppy (http://www.toms.net/rb/) and running with
> the appropriate command line.
>
> Let us know how you get on....
>
> Colin
>
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