From: pfcouvar@unix.amherst.edu Subject: [answer] Root vs. Boot Disk (was Re: 0.99pl5 bugs?) Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1993 04:09:36 GMT
dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Philip Perucci) writes:
> 1) After "make disk", and booting the floppy, it HANGS after prompting
> for root floppy. In Makefile (ROOT_DEV), I tried both this commented
> out, thus defaulting to FLOPPY, as well as /dev/fd0H1440.
The #define wants the _root_ disk, not the boot disk. Put the
device name of whatever hd partition you're using for the root filesystem
there (i.e. /dev/hda1 or /dev/hdb2) instead and everything should boot
fine.
-Peter
-- pfcouvar@unix.amherst.edu (Peter Couvares)