Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Mar 2000 12:06:51 -0500 (EST) | From | Adam <> | Subject | Re: Linux Jobs: Update |
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> Argh. What's the screams all over the place ? You CAN NOT boot Linux without > command line option. I repeat. You CAN NOT boot Linux without using command > line option. Never was, never will. You MUST specify at least one option: > root=blah-blah-blah ... This option is not specifyed as append=... in LiLo > but, for example, in loadlin you must specify it explicitly. And compiled > defaults (where you need to RECOMPILE kernel just to reflect changes in > jumper settings) are kludges. Thus they were removed (not all I afraid).
It has been a while since I used loadlin, but I think you might be wrong.
You can use 'rdev' to set your root disk in kernel image itself, and thus no need to explictly specify root.
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