Re: Debian Linux Problem

[Joost Kooij <kooij@mpn.cp.philips.com>]

Oops! made a mistake:

On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Joost Kooij wrote:

> If you don't know what lilo is, just take out the installation
> bootdiskette (also called "rescue disk" for exactly this kind of purpose)
> and at the first prompt type "linux single."

If you boot from the rescue disk, you'll want the kernel to use the root
filesystem on your harddisk instead of the ramdisk image on the floppy,
because there's not much to repair on the floppy ;-) . To make the kernel
do that, you'll have to tell it on what device it can find the root
filesystem with the "root=<device name>" boot parameter.

Assuming your linux root partition is on /dev/hda1, the correct bootstring
would then be:

   linux single root=/dev/hda1


I'm sorry for the wrong initial information.

Cheers,


Joost


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