Re: boot using mount root=/dev/hdaN still prompts for root disk

From: Mr. Boy (mrboy77_at_gmail.com)
Date: 03/10/05 

Date: 10 Mar 2005 08:15:37 -0800

Lars,

First advice:

Do not trust floppies, they die easily, use CDs they last longer..

Dude, when you boot from floppy disks or CD disks, at the boot prompt
(LILO Only) you must tell the
linux which kernel to boot (must be in the media) and
which device use as a root partition.

example:

at boot prompt:

boot: raid.s root=/dev/sda5

here, we are booting from a slack CD with the raid scsi kernel, using
the fifth partition on the first scsi device... check that it says
root=/xxx/xxx not mount

now go with ide:
boot: bareacpi.i root=/dev/hda3 vga=normal

here we are booting another slackware kernel called bareacpi.i using
/dev/hda3 (third partition, master device on first IDE Bus), and
telling to boot console
without framebuffer...

By the Way, you should use SYSLINUX tool to make a bootable floppy
disk.

syslinux [kernel-name] [floppy-device]

That is it... i think this answer your question...

Good Luck!

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