| Michael Leone on Mon, 18 Mar 2002 23:25:14 -0500 |
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On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 22:20, Bill Jonas wrote: > On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 11:24:14PM -0500, Doug Crompton wrote: > > Here is what I did... > > There's a simpler way, although (as always) it isn't as flexible. It's > handy in a pinch, or if you have a very large kernel and only need to > worry about booting one partition. > > First, dd (or cat, or whatever) the kernel to a floppy. > Next, use "rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/rootpartition". /dev/rootpartition? never saw that one before. A symlink called /dev/root, pointing to the real root partition. > read up on it a bit. (I plan on migrating to GRUB soon, after having > had my first experience with it. I use a GRUB boot disk to boot into > the HURD the other day, LILO being insufficient for the task. It was > neat.) Insufficient in what way? -- PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF PGP public key: <http://www.mike-leone.com/~turgon/turgon-public-key.gpg> The secret of flying is simple: Throw yourself at the ground and miss. Attachment:
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