On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 08:41:06PM +1300, jaytee(a)clear.net.nz wrote:
All I made a major error in compiling the kernel so am going to reinstall from scratch for two reasons. One: I am not
If it is 'just' the kernel, you might be able to boot up from the install disk, and give the boot prompt (either grub or lilo) the option to use the kernel off the cdrom for booting, and then use your harddrive to mount the root partition (instead of using the disk image). For lilo, you would give the name of the kernel image (eg "linux" and then "root=/dev/hdaX" where X is the correct partition), Eg linux root=/dev/hda1 Someone else will have to give you instructions if your boot cdrom uses grub.
Capital o and zero are a bit of a guess, is there a rule whe it should be a 0 (zero) and when it should be a O (o)
If you are talking about the grub config file, then it is 0 (zero). hd0 means the first hard drive, hd1 would be the second, etc. Similarly, (hd0,0) means the first partition on the first hard drive, (hd1,2) means the 3rd partition on the 2nd hard drive, etc. Basically, indexes start at 0. Incidentally, if you use a virtual console (eg alt+ctrl+1) instead of a terminal emulator in X, the O (letter o) and 0 (zero) are distinguishable because the 0 (zero) has a dot in it. John