Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 24 Aug 1999 03:18:07 -0400 (EDT) | | From | "Mike A. Harris" <> | | Subject | Re: Kernel Panic, root fs.. |
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On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Tim Ricketts wrote:
>> > and /lib/modules. I then edit lilo.conf and tell it about the >> > new kernel. I don't run rdev, or any other such thing. The >> > kernels ALWAYS boot properly, and if I move them to a totally >> > different machine, they still work correctly. >> > >> >> How do you get away with that? The last time I tried that, the other >> machine had the kernel panic, couldn't open initial console, etc...so I >> ran rdev on it to set the root device, and have been doing it that way >> since. > >By default the kernel has the root device wherever it was when you >compiled it. This can be changed with rdev or overridden by putting >root=/dev/whatever on your kernel command line which lilo does if you >specify root=/dev/whatever in lilo.conf.
Allright, then that is how it is doing it then. ALL of my machines lilo.conf files have always had a "root=" line in them, as it defaulted to that, and the HOWTO's I read at the time said it was necessary. Makes sense now with your above explanation.
Thanks, TTYL
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