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Re: new hard drive install



On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, David Wright wrote:

> Yes. When you copy a kernel (e.g. I copy /boot/vmlinuz to
> c:\loadlin\zimage for loadlin to boot from dos) you need to rdev it.
> Type    rdev kernel-image    to see what it's set to and
> rdev kernel-image /dev/hda2    to set it. This saves having to tell it
> where root is every time you boot it.

Not necessary. Recently i repartitioned my HD, moved Linux from hda2 to
hda1. Never had any trouble after i restored my filesystem from backups
and reran lilo (after editing lilo.conf and fstab)


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