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

[Brent Harding]

Exactly. the install kernel is too, how could I slip the speakup patch in
without mounting drives, tough.
At 08:07 PM 11/5/00 -0500, you wrote:
>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.
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>----- 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
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>> 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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>> >Geoff Shang <gshang10 at scu.edu.au>
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