Re: [newbie] error message on boot up

2002-03-24 Thread Damian
El sáb, 23-03-2002 a las 22:55, Song Sourisak escribió: Hi, I saw in the mail archive a question from you asking about the followin error at the boot: change root to /initrd: error -2 I was wondering if you have any idea to solve it. In the archive, the person that answer your question

Re: [newbie] error message on boot up

2002-03-24 Thread Song Sourisak
Hi Damian, Thank you for responding to my message. For your question, no i dont have a /initrd dir... I heard that doing so, the error is gone...hip hip houray Can you tell me the way to do so. Thank you in advance Song The error was exactly (at the boot) : change root to /initrd: error -2 Is

Re: [newbie] error message on boot up

2002-03-24 Thread Damian
El lun, 25-03-2002 a las 02:40, Song Sourisak escribió: Hi Damian, Thank you for responding to my message. For your question, no i dont have a /initrd dir... I heard that doing so, the error is gone...hip hip houray Can you tell me the way to do so. Thank you in advance Song you mean

Re: [newbie] error message on boot up

2002-03-24 Thread Song Sourisak
Hi, Just to be sure: do I create the /initrd dir in the /boot dir? Would it matter if i have the same your README.WARNING file in it? Maybe i don't get it but why is a simple text file in /initrd would take that error message away? Is it related to the fact that i changed the kernel for a new

Re: [newbie] error message on boot up

2002-03-24 Thread Michael
This is obvious to an old hand. When a directory name starts with / that means the top directory. It is the one that contains /bin, /etc, /home, /root and /var. That is why you can only write a new directory in it as root or su (super user). Michael Song Sourisak wrote: Hi, Just to be sure:

Re: [newbie] error message on boot up

2002-03-24 Thread Damian
El lun, 25-03-2002 a las 03:21, Song Sourisak escribió: Hi, Just to be sure: do I create the /initrd dir in the /boot dir? Would it matter if i have the same your README.WARNING file in it? Maybe i don't get it but why is a simple text file in /initrd would take that error message away? Is

[newbie] error message on boot up

2002-03-23 Thread Song Sourisak
Hi, I saw in the mail archive a question from you asking about the followin error at the boot: change root to /initrd: error -2 I was wondering if you have any idea to solve it. In the archive, the person that answer your question was pkoch and told you to do a search in the newsgroup. I