booting problem

[Jacob Schmude]

Hi
at the boot: prompt on the CD, couldn't you just use the root parameters to the kernel? Something like:
speakup.i speakup_synth=dectlk root=/dev/hdb1 ro
replacing the values for synth and root as appropriate? Or if you don't want to do that, get the speakup.i bootdisk and write it to a floppy, then use:
mount speakup_synth=dectlk root=/dev/hdb1 ro
again replacing the values as appropriate and at the boot: prompt.

HTH



On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 06:10:48 -0400 (EDT), Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:

>I need help recovering from a real piece of stupidity. A friend
>with Windows on her primary drive wanted to install Slackware 9.0
>on a secondary 40 GB drive, and everything went like clockwork
>until the stupidity kicked in (my stupidity):
>
>1. We tried creating a boot floppy when prompted, but it failed
>because the floppy was not big enough. and
>
>2. We installed Lilo on the superblock of the root partition on
>the secondary disk instead of the MBR of the primary disk.
>
>Imagine our surprise when we could not boot into Linux.
>
>I hope someone has a magic solution for us, so we can get into
>the new Linux installation long enough to put Lilo where it
>belongs. We have the full CD set for SW 9.0 which includes two
>bootable CD's, the installation disk and a nifty rescue disk. Are
>there some boot parameters for the loader that can do the trick
>for us?