I missed root=/dev/hdb1 in /etc/lilo.conf. Works now. Thanks anyway.
At 10:37 PM 3/27/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>Howdy,
>
>I have done this on SuSE several times so I know it can be done. The situation is
>this:
>
>When I first installed I accidently put both hard drives on the secondary IDE chain.
>i.e.
>/dev/hdc ( /boot ) and /dev/hdd ( / )
>
>I need to put them In their proper place on /dev/hda and /dev/hdb now. I edited etc
>fstab, halted and moved the drives. I forgot to run lilo. That's ok, because I was
>able to boot the system with "linux root=/dev/hdb2" at the LILO prompt. I booted,
>changed
>
> "boot=/dev/hdc"
> to
> "boot=/dev/hda"
>
>in /etc/lilo.conf ran /sbin/lilo and rebooted and I'm still getting a kernel panic,
>unable to mount root FS message upon booting.
>
>What didn't I do to make lilo know that it needs to use /dev/hdb1 as "/" and
>/dev/hda1 as /boot ? There is one thing: in lilo.conf there's a line
>"install=/boot/boot.b". I have no idea what that line means or is causing - could
>that be the problem?
>
>As I said, I think it's a lilo config problem because everything's ok if I give LILO
>the root=/dev/hdb1 argument.
>
>TIA
>
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