[olug] new kernel

[Phil Brutsche]

On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 23:26, mesc wrote:
> I finally got into my linux system by booting with a boot disk and
> telling it linux root=/dev/hda5...my root partition.Thanks to all who
> replied and helped.

You're welcome.  Even though I wasn't one of those who helped :)

> I can't get sound,mounting any of my disk (at bootup
> it says something like vfat fs  not supported  by kernel) or get
> connected to the net (linux detected  my nic and said it was a realtek
> 8139 when it is actually a zonet 3200,could the realtek be a clone of
> the zonet?)

Nope.  Zonet is a manufacturer of low-end networking gear.  Realtek is
merely a semiconductor "manufacturer" whose 10/100 PCI ethernet chips
(the rtl-8129, rtl-8130, rtl-8139a/b/c, rtl-8139c+) are used on Zonet
ethernet cards.

> Everything pointed to the kernel I was thinking so I
> recompiled it and made a bootdisk for it but it  still won't mount root
> and without LILO I can't stipulate root=/dev/hda5 because it takes off
> and starts uncompressing the kernel right away.Does anyone have any idea
> how I can pass it to the kernel before  it starts uncompressing?

If you have a working system you can change the hard-coded default root
fs with the rdev command; you would use something like this as root:

rdev vmlinuz /dev/hda5


Phil


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