I had put my question on this list two or three weeks ago, and Mark
Knecht was kind enough to take an interest in it.
Now, I have made some progress and the problem is different.
To summarize: on my G4 iMac, Yellow Dog Linux 4.0.1 is installed on the
HD, and I want to install Gentoo on a FW drive. I have more or less done
it, using the 2005.0 universal disk.
The problem now is that Gentoo does not boot: I get the message
"Cannot open root device "sda11" or unknown-block(0.0). Please append
a correct "root=" boot option.
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on
unknown-block(0.0)"
(and, by the way, the colours of the screen are very strange).
On my other Linux, I can mount whatever is on the FW drive and inspect
it. In this way, I have found these bits:
--/etc/yaboot.conf as written by Gentoo on the FW disk:
boot=/dev/sda9
device=/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/sbp-2/[EMAIL
PROTECTED]:
partition=11
root=/dev/sda11
timeout=30
install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
image=/boot/kernel-2.6.10
label=Linux
read-only
--/etc/fstab as written by Gentoo on the FW disk:
/dev/sda11 / ext3 noatimes 0 0
/dev/sda12 /home ext3 defaults 0 0
/dev/sda10 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
Looking at this, I don't see how /dev/sda11 could be wrong. But there is
the other question of the "unknown-block(0.0)" and I can't at all see
what it means. Could somebody kindly enlighten me?
Charles
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