[wellylug] Changing kernel boot settings on a restored system.

[Glen Ogilvie]

Hi,

I am trying to do a restore of a system that I have backed up with dar.   To 
to this, I created some partitions (not the same sizes exactly), and then 
restored the files onto those partitions, from a boot floppy.

After doing that, I chrooted to the harddisk and installed LILO, by doing 
lilo, after editing /etc/fstab, /etc/mtab and /etc/lilo.conf

After rebooting, LILO loads the kernel.  However, I get partway thru boot, 
just after starting udev, and it tells me it cannot mount the root partition.  
It also is trying to mount this partition as reiserfs, although I have 
changed the type in /etc/fstab.

Does anyone know if /boot/initrd would be where the kernel stores information 
about how to mount partitions where the rest of system is?  Also, suggestions 
on how to edit initrd would be good.   I have been using a 2 floppy disk 
resuce set,  as don't have a CD drive attached to this machine.  Using 
mkinitrd fails, as this disk does not have a loopback device setup on it.

So, suggestions as to a floppy disk distro that might be able to help with 
this, and does /boot/initrd contain stuff that tells the kernel what 
partitions to mount, or what type of partition it is?

the system I am restoring is a Mandrake 10.1 system and I have time so am 
happy to experiment.

Cheers
Glen
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