booting problem

[Luke Davis]

At the kernel commandline prompt, something like:

root=/dev/hdb1

might work.


On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, 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?
>
> Many thanks for any suggestion, and I promise to work hard on my
> stupidity.
>
> Chuck
>
>