On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 06:55:17PM +0000, Gary wrote: > the result onto a floppy. I then try and boot the laptop from the floppy (I > want to be sure the kernel works okay before I replace the one on the hd). > Everything goes well until it reports a kernel panic because it is "unable > to mount root fs". Obviously I've missed a step somewhere. Would someone > please give me a pointer to where? None of my books have anything in them > regarding building kernels on one computer to run on another. >
you should use rdev to tell the kernel on the floppy the partition where lies your / filesystem or add root=/dev/hd?? to the new kernel command line. Where /dev/hd?? is your / filesystem (/dev/hda1 or whatever). Philippe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
