Re: can't boot without "root=..." on kernel cmdline

Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Tue, 25 Jan 2000 15:44:51 +1100

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On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 21:34:24 -0500 (EST),
Chuck Lever <cel@monkey.org> wrote:
>i can't boot the machine without specifying "root=/dev/sda1" on the kernel

Sounds like the BIOS and LILO disagree about where the boot disk is.
Try this in /etc/lilo.conf

disk=/dev/sda
bios=0x80

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