Re: booting on a microway alpha box
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 03:39:49PM -0500, Douglas Fils wrote:
> Jay, Jon, thanks for the responces...
>
> I am booting from AlphaBIOS/milo (can I install SRM in it's place, it
> sounds like the better option). The milo version is older,
> (v2.0.35-c5.4, but I have tried new milo's off CD and they don't seem to
> help)
>
> once in milo a show command tells me that I have fd and ide devices. I
> seem to have SCSI installed on the machine, but not used, the devices
> are IDE.
>
> If I "ls hdb0:" in milo I see I need to list the boot directory to see
> linux, so I used...
>
> boot hdb0:/boot/linux root=/dev/hdb0
> (I've tried /dev/hdb for root as well)
/dev/hdb0 is a more likely candidate than /dev/hdb. How is your disk
partitioned?
> This boots the kernel but gets to:
> ---
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 184K free
> Waring: unable to open initial console
> Kernel panic: No init found Try passing init= option to kernel
> ---
That sounds as if the filesystem isn't arranged the way that linux is
expecting it... Do you have a / and /boot setup? If so, then the
root directory needs to be /dev/hdb1 or /dev/hdb2, or... If you ls
various partitions in MILO, does the rest of the filesystem look the
way you expect? In particular, is there a sbin/init on /dev/hdb0?
You might also try passing init=/bin/sh or something like that, just
for debugging purposes.
Which kernel are you trying this with? I need to install some new
hardware in my system sometime soon, and if you're still stuck I can see
if I can reproduce the problem on my system.
> at this point I have tried a number of different combination, but seem
> to not be able to fall on the correct one, hoping to find help here..
Jon Leonard
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