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Re: [cobalt-developers] problems booting the redhat 7.3 kernel on a raq3
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] problems booting the redhat 7.3 kernel on a raq3
- From: Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue Aug 13 08:25:57 2002
- List-id: Discussion Forum for developers on Sun Cobalt Networks products <cobalt-developers.list.cobalt.com>
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, John P. Looney wrote:
> However, I have a second problem. It is now loading the RedHat 2.4.18
> kernel, but won't mount /dev/hda2 as /
>
> I tryed using rdev on /boot/vmlinux before gzipping it, and I tried
> setting the kernel parameters, using "set_params" in the PROMs boot menu,
> but had no luck. With rdev, it booted 2.4.18, and then mounted /dev/hda1,
> and with set_params it loaded 2.2.16 (so I could have been using
> set_params incorrectly - i ran 'set_params "root=/dev/hda2 ro
> initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-3.img"'.
>
I believe you can specify this in lilo.conf
boot = /dev/hda2
HTH
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