this blasted boot program--

[Chromatic Distortion]

After a long and grevieous process of restoring both Knoppix and Win XP, the Knoppix installed
on my HD would not work. During the process of reparing both OSes, I had moved Knoppix to
/dev/hda6 , but previously it was at /dev/hda7

During bootup, the normal colorful text comes up explaining that I am booting to Knoppix, and
then comes an error message saying that /dev/hda7 is not a valid root filesystem. I gave the
root=/dev/hda6 boot option to the kernel, and the colorful text came along fine until the error mesg.
I don't think this is the kernel malfunctioning, but rather a program running at startup, trying to
validate the root fs. How do I find out what this program is, and more importantly, how do I configure it?

I was able to solve this problem by booting to the CD Knoppix and doing this:
mount /dev/hda6
cd /mnt/hda6/dev
file hda7
hda7: block special (3/7)
mknod hda7.backup b 3 7 (make a backup copy of hda7)
ln -s hda6 hda7

However, I would still like to know how to configure this program, as this is not the first time
that I have had to reinstall because of this error.

[Vergil83]

well, depending if you are using grub or lilo.
if it is grub, you need to change it in /boot/grub/menu.lst
if it is lilo, you need to change it in /etc/lilo.conf (IIRC)