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

[Brent Harding]

You can't bring the kernel up this way from the hard drive, if linux were
the only OS, could you?
At 08:09 PM 11/7/00 +1100, you wrote:
>The rdev setting is only used in the kernel image when none is given to the
>kernel by loadlin lilo grub silo or another loader. The rdev bytes in the
kernel
>are for if you bring the kernel up off a floppy with no boot loader it knows
>what the default root device is.
>
>Regards, Kerry
>On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 08:38:46AM +1100, Geoff Shang 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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