Re: Cobalt RaQ XTR installing Debian via nfsroot

[Curtis Phillips <salmonleapwine@gmail.com>]

On Oct 27, 2008, at 1:15 PM, Pelle Edding wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I followed this "HowTo" (
> http://www.cyrius.com/debian/cobalt/install.html ) and my settings are
> exactly the same as in the HowTo.
> I used this image :
> http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-mipsel/ 
> current/images/cobalt/nfsroot.tar.gz
>
> If I try to boot with nfs I get this message:
>
> "Kernel Panic: no init found. Try passing init= option to Kernel"
>
> but I dont know what I have to do...
>
> Mfg
> P. Edding
>
>
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Wrong Distro flavor. Won't work. Everything is compiled for a  
different CPU arch from what you have.

The XTR is an AMD based machine w/ a K6-2 CPU IIRC (ie: it's an x86  
variant). The RaQ1 & RaQ2 are MIPS based (a completely different CPU  
arch).

You might want to take a peek at:
http://www.cobaltfaqs.com/index.php/Debian_on_Cobalt




Curtis Phillips
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Salmon Leap Consulting
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