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- From: almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger)
- Subject: Re: MSDOS need to be on /dev/hda1 ?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.051045.6206@bernina.ethz.ch>
- Keywords: lilo,partitions
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- Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
- References: <1992Dec11.000248.12027@iitmax.iit.edu>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 05:10:45 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec11.000248.12027@iitmax.iit.edu> thsswto@iitmax.iit.edu (William T. O'Connell) writes:
- > [Q1] Is lilo failing Is this because /dev/hda1 is linux's root partition
- > and not DOS??
-
- No, LILO doesn't care.
-
- >[Q2] If so, is there a simple way to fix this? (or do I need to start from
- > scratch again, ouch).
-
- Yup, there is a simple way.
-
- >[Q3] If the partitions are OK, Any clues while lilo is failing (as
- > he says with enthusiasm).
-
- You didn't set the root device of your kernel to /dev/hda1. You should use
- rdev aka setroot to do that and then run /etc/lilo/install again.
- Alternatively, you could add the root device to your LILO configuration,
- so LILO will take care of this from then on:
-
- Old-style: append ,/dev/hda1 to the image description of your kernel, e.g.
- /linux,/dev/hda1
- New-style (0.7): add root = /dev/hda1 after the image = ... line.
-
- By the way, you should upgrade to LILO 0.7 to avoid possible problems
- with 0.98pl6.
-
- - Werner
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