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)