[SLUG] lost link between /boot and /

[Ben Donohue <donohueb@nospam.bvm.com.au>]

hi slugs,
i'm mucking around with converting from NT to linux desktop.
i've been mucking around with partitions.
i don't know the technical terms for the following but here goes...

i've got two partitions for linux. a /boot and another partition called
/ for everything else.
there are a few other partitions *between* these partitions on the hard
disk. it's a 20Gb hard disk and that's why /boot is down near the start
of the disk for <1024 cyl limitation and / is at the end of the disk.
anyway deleting a partition between /boot and / has caused linux to have
a kernal panic and error saying it can't find a console. try passing
init= to the kernel.

how do i re-link the /boot partition to the / partition? or how do you
get the /boot partition to find the / partition?
i've edited the lilo.conf but no go as lilo.conf is in the / partition
which *i guess* can't be found by the kernel from /boot.
i hope this makes sense!



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