install complete, but boot disk don't work

[Frank Carmickle]

Hi Jim

On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Jim Ruby wrote:

> Ok, I got speach, but it goes for a bit and stops.  I do have speech but the strange thing now is it is looking at /deb/hda7 I have no hda7.  I have everything on hdb and redhat set this all up itself.
> Here is what it setup
> hdb1 is a small partision, not sure what this is
> hdb2 is the root and largest partision
> hdb3 is the swap
> 
> On the boot disk there is a syslinux.cfg file.  here is the contants below.
> default linux
> prompt 1
> display boot.msg
> timeout 100
> label linux
> 	kernel vmlinuz
> 	append initrd=initrd.img root=/dev/hdb2
> 
> Should there be more

Well there is nothing here about a root file system.  When booting with
the boot disk.  
linux speakup_synth=xxx root=/dev/hdb2 ro

I think your going to have some difficulties booting the system from
hdb.  To learn about this see the howto which discusses multiple
drives.  http://www.linuxdoc.org

HTH

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     Frank Carmickle
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