RE: changing root on rescue disk

[Stuart Luppescu <s-luppescu uchicago edu>]

On 05-Oct-97 Joanna Bryson wrote:
> Hello again --
> 
> I'm having an apparently standard problem with LILO not dealing with a
> large disk well, -- it stops at "LI".  I need to be able to mount one
> of my partitions as root, but I can't get it to work right from the
> install/rescue disk.  I've tried typing:
> 
> linux root=/dev/hda3   [sic -- yup, that's where / should be]
> and 
> rescue root=/dev/hda3
[edited]
I believe the correct syntax is linux root=/dev/hda3 rescue, but I've never
gotten it to work as it should. What works for me is to boot using the
rescue option and then specify the root partition with the -r option in lilo.
Check out man lilo. 
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