Re: Labelling/Partitioning disks - once more with feeling!

Erik Troan (ewt@redhat.com)
Fri, 27 Oct 1995 11:58:15 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 26 Oct 1995, Nigel.Metheringham wrote:

> I can mount any of these file systems using mount on a running alpha
> system. I have one 1.3.31 kernel acquired by one of my collegues (he
> is away having a baby - by proxy - so I can't check where he got it
> from). However any kernel I build, and any of the recent binary
> distribution kernels I have tried panic on root mount.

Have you tried mkbb? It'll be in /usr/local/bin on Blade systems
and /usr/bin on Red Hat ones. The syntax is 'mkbb lxboot /dev/sdsomething'.

Of course I may not have that quite right.

The 'lxboot' file is in /usr/local/bin or /usr/lib.

Erik

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