Hello, Since my last message, I am actually able to boot up, in single user mode, if I specify "rescue single" at the lilo prompt. So I think I am getting closer. Now I am stumped, df says the root file system is "/dev/ram" but appears to actually be my 17 Meg hard disk partition.
I (re)read the Bootdisk-HOWTO, but can't see anything else that is in the picture that is causing this confusion. I tried setting the ramdisk size to 0 and the boot device as /dev/hda7 with both "rdev" and in the lilo.conf file... At bootup, init says: VFS: Mounted toot (ext2 filesystem) readonly INIT: version 2.76 booting proc on /proc type proc (rw) Does anyone have any idea what I am missing to get the root file system set correctly as /dev/hda7 ? relevant lilo.conf entries are: boot=/dev/hda install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=40 image=/spare/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda7 label=rescue ramdisk=0 read-only John ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
