Re: Alpha DKA600 = Linux /dev/$what?
On Mon 27 Dec 1999, Kyle Tucker wrote:
> Way back when, Paul Slootman wrote:
> >
> > > cannot get Debian 2.1 to mount the root file system under
> > > this or any other device name (sdb6, sd0, sdb) I have even
> >
> > Try /dev/sda2 (have you in fact already installed linux on it?
> > Did you use the second partition / slice for root?)
>
> I have not installed Linux *anywhere* as this is simply an
> initial installation boot-up. The way I perceived this is
> that Linux needs to mount a root even in the install boot
> so it can come up in a normal run state. Are you saying there
> is only a root *after* the installation?
There is always a root, only during installation it's in a RAM disk that
gets loaded from floppy (or wherever) during kernel boot.
Paul Slootman
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