installed rh 6.2 from talking bootdisk, but it's kernel refuses to work properly when copied in from the bootdisk

[Chris Schulte]

This is the exact error I was having atempting to mount disk drives.  Let me
guess, the kernel that boots is version 2.2.1450.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brent Harding" <bharding at ufw2.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 4:59 PM
Subject: Re: installed rh 6.2 from talking bootdisk, but it's kernel refuses
to work properly when copied in from the bootdisk


> No, it boots, having dad help me the first time, the nonspeakup kernel it
> installed booted, but the speakup kernel gives errors, and gives a message
> saying enter root password for maintenance or press ctrl-d to start
> normally. Pressing that says automatic reboot in progress, and it does so.
> This was using loadlin with the kernel of the rh boot disk. When I try to
> mount once I get to maintenance mode, it says /dev/fd0, wrong major or
> minor number. It does this with any partition I choose to mount, including
> my dos one.
> At 08:38 AM 11/6/00 +1100, you wrote:
> >Hi:
> >
> >hmmmm.  OK, does it actually end up booting or does it grind to a halt?
I
> >would have thought that you'd need to do a rdev on the kernel so that it
> >would use the hard drive as the root device as opposed to the floppy, but
> >I've never used redhat.  You out there, Bill?
> >
> >Geoff.
> >
> >
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