Re: booting challenges with lx164
Your "starting place" looks like a line from /etc/aboot.conf which
is not applicable. The following two are equivalent, and say to
go to SCSI device id 0, partition 1 to load the file /boot/vmlinux.
Further, special file /dev/sda1 is the device to mount. My "dka0"
comes from the "show dev" command listing. Your devs may vary.
The second version is preferred as the variable values are saved
between power cycles, and so only need be entered once.
-Martin
>>> boot dka0 -file 1/boot/vmlinux -flags "root=/dev/sda1"
>>> set boot_dev dka0
>>> set boot_file 1/boot/vmlinux
>>> set boot_osflags "root=/dev/sda1"
>>> boot
"Eric S. Johansson" wrote:
>
> a friend of mine gave me an lx164 and now I'm trying to make it run Debian. I've
> upgraded the BIOS to the latest arc (5.7) version. I can run milo off of the
> first Debian CD but I can't get the boot command right. My starting place is:
>
> boot sr0:/boot/linux root=/dev/sr0
>
> VFS: can not open root device 00:00
>
> and then I get a kernel panic about not being able to open the root device. I've
> tried a bunch of different options but I'm not really sure what to do because
> the documentation doesn't seem to cover the problems I'm experiencing.
>
> any help would be most appreciated.
>
> ---eric
>
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