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Re: switching between lilo and grub
From: |
Marco Gerards |
Subject: |
Re: switching between lilo and grub |
Date: |
14 Oct 2003 22:16:07 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 |
"Aaron P. Martinez" <address@hidden> writes:
[...]
> Next i used 'kernel /vmlinuz' and it recognized my kernel and then i
> typed 'boot' but it kernel panicked saying it couldn't mount root fs on
> 48:05. I'm pretty lost and was under the impression that this would be
> quite easy. I could leave the system as a lilo system, but i prefer the
> grub bootloader. Can anyone offer some advice?
You need to tell the kernel the device name of the root device,
something like:
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1
Perhaps you also have to load an initial ramdisk, that depends on the
GNU/Linux distribution you are using.
--
Marco