Assuming it's a LILO boot floppy, you want to enter

  linux root=/dev/hda2

at the boot prompt.  Also make sure you have already made appropriate
changes to /etc/fstab on the new partition.

-- Rod
   http://www.sunsetsystems.com/

Mark Berkwitt wrote:
> 
> Well, subject line says it all.
> 
> I've been booting RH with my floppy until I got a handle on Partition Magic
> 5's boot program.
> I bought a 20GB hdd to replace those 3 little drives I'd been using.
> Red Hat 6.2 was on hdb1 and is now hda2.
> Now the obvious question is:
> How do I direct my boot floppy to find the root partition at /dev/hda2 ??
> 
> Thanks