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i installed slackware onto a hard drive, but the computer that i installed it with had no floppy drive, so i was unable to create a boot disk.
after looking through the slackware cd, i was able to create a boot disk using RAWRITE.EXE and the bare.i image. when i boot from this floppy, i get the "boot:" prompt and i enter "mount root=/dev/hda1". the boot disk does not seem to be able to boot from my new root. it recognizes all of my hardware, but then asks me to "Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk"
is there a file on the floppy i can edit so that it will load my installed root?
is this problem because i installed slackware onto the hard drive on a different computer than the one i am trying to use it on?
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