Hi, I'm still busy trying to get my selfbuilt (make-kpkg) kernel to boot off a floppy. So far I wasn't successfull, neither the default kernel 2.2.20-pmac nor one built from 2.4.18 deb (with patches), nor with a benh tree kernel (without patches) worked. I guess my problem is how to specify the root device numbers in the System file. My root is /dev/sda2: host:~# ls -l /dev/sda2 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 2 Mar 14 10:10 /dev/sda2 So as I understand it the major number is 8, the minor number is 2. I copied the System file from the boot-floppy-hfs.img and opend it with emacs in hexl-mode. I guess the relevant part looks like this: 00012d00: dada dada 0000 0065 726f 6f74 3d30 3230 .......eroot=020 00012d10: 3020 6c6f 6164 5f72 616d 6469 736b 3d31 0 load_ramdisk=1 00012d20: 2070 726f 6d70 745f 7261 6d64 6973 6b3d prompt_ramdisk= 00012d30: 3120 6164 625f 6275 7474 6f6e 733d 3130 1 adb_buttons=10 00012d40: 332c 3131 3120 7669 6465 6f3d 6f66 6f6e 3,111 video=ofon 00012d50: 6c79 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 ly 00012d60: 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2000 0000 0000 ..... Now, I tried root=0802 and root=8200, both didn't work. Could someone please kick me in the right direction? Thanks! -- Vinai Registered Linux User #280755, Debian GNU/Linux http://counter.li.org/ Secure eMail with gnupg http://www.gnupg.org/
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