On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 06:15:25PM -0600, Jeff Green wrote: > Reboot: [E] (2.6.8) [O] (2.6.10 from ppckernel.org) [O] > (2.6.11 ditto)
Oh well ... > Comments/Problems: > > - Shell escaping with the installer presents a difficult situation for > mounting other partitions since > /dev/hd[ab]* is not recognized. Sure, it uses devfs, so you need /dev/ide/host0/.../disc > - install kernel-2.6.8-powerpc as part of the standard install. Ok. > - installed 2.6.10 & 11-rc4 (both from ppckernel.org) kernels onto hda5 > because I know what's coming. Well, that is something that you should do post-reboot. Not during the install like you did. > - nb: 2.6.10 won't startx, and 2.6.11 will with fb driver config though > w/o working wacom support. > - also (tried to) install sven's 2.6.10-3-powerpc before rebooting but > see below.... > - (NEED to sync yaboot.conf again between the two systems.) > - REBOOT into base system: > - kernel 2.6.8 hangs (with the following as the tail of the boot > process:) > TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536) > VFS: Cannot open root device "hda5" or unknown-block(0,0) > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) > <0>Rebooting in 180 seconds.. This should not happen, i think your hardware is well suppported, but for some reason the ide driver is not loaded in the initrd. I suspect this may be due to you doing unorthodoxe kernel things during the install though, or is a bug in initrd-tools. Mmm, maybe you simply forget to add the initrd entry in your yaboot.conf ? I would like : 1) a lspci and lspci -n output of your hardware. 2) if you could mount the initrd (both 2.6.10 and 2.6.8), and run a find on it to check for the presence or absence of modules with the above list. 3) just to be on the safe side, the content of your yaboot.conf. > - retry with 2.6.10 from ppckernel.org => comes up > - needed to edit /etc/network/interfaces to change eth1 to eth0, > networking wouldn't work otherwise > - In the 'select and install' step, after selecting, the list of > packages flies by and then a dialog > saying one or more packages failed to install. > - moved the /v/c/apt to /usr/v/c/apt, but still had the error (due to > kernel-2.6.10-powerpc bad install) Err, you seem to say there is a bad install, and see below for details, but i am missing the details in question. So, please provide detailed info on that too. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
