Re: new hard drive install
Quoting Brad (lists@anomie.dhis.org):
> 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)
^^^^
Loadlin is not lilo.
The "Yes" was answering the question as put, which was IIRC "Does the
kernel have a place in which it remembers its root device". (But this was
before it was revealed that there were far more serious error messages
than a kernel panic.)
Cheers,
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