Re: boot

From: Thomas Dodd (ted@cypress.com)
Date: Thu Jul 27 2000 - 13:19:56 EST


Naside Ozer wrote:
>
> with the command of
>
> dd if=vmlinuz of=/dev/fdo bs=1440k
>
> Anyway my guy says when I want to boot it
> from floopy
>
> VFS:can not open root device 08:04
> Kernel panic:VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:04

man rdev

without lilo or other boot loader to tell the kernel
where / (root filsystem) is, you need to use rdev.

        -Thomas

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