Help with Kernel install.

[Thomas Ward]

Hello, Kirk. Well, I was hoping to install this Kernel on multiple machines.
On my laptop it is /dev/hda2
On my desktop system on my hard drive it is /dev/HDA1.
I manually fdisked and mapped out these partitions myself when I installed
RH 7 so that much I know.
I guess I want to know how to set the Kernel up so I can just drop it onto a
partition of my choosing, and also turn it into a rescue boot disk.


----- Original Message -----
From: Kirk Wood <cpt.kirk at 1tree.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 8:50 AM
Subject: Re: Help with Kernel install.


> You can setup to boot with a new kernell without endangering your current
> situation. If you copy the new bzImage to the /boot dir and add a new
> entry to lilo.conf. Just copy the curent entry with a new label and new
> image name. you will then have an option of shoosing the image to use when
> you first boot.
>
> It sounds to me like the kernel panic is not a problem with the kernell
> itself, but rather that it is failing to find a usable root location for
> the file system. Chances are that unless you have one large partition on
> your drive the correct root partition is /dev/hda4 or /dev/hda5. You can
> pick it out by running the mount command or df.
>
> =======
> Kirk Wood
> Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net
>
> Cluelessness
> There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of
> inquisitive idiots
>
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