On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 01:13:59AM -0800, Lucien S Carroll wrote: > This may well be an easy question, but i can't find anything on it. What > does this error mean? kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount fs it means you neglected to specify your root partition with root=/dev/hdaXX in /etc/yaboot.conf. or you compiled a 2.4 kernel with the completely broken .config it comes with. > I've a blue G3 running OS 8.6. Whether I boot via bootx or yaboot, i get > this same error message right after it checks the partitions and scans for > RAID stuff. Then it does the boot in 180s deal. don't use bootx > This may or may not be related, but i'm also having trouble getting yaboot > to work. I currently have it set up the YDL way, with the kernel, yaboot, > and yaboot.conf sitting in the system folder of a MacOS installation. With > the line that is probably why it doesn't work, this makes thing much harder and quite flaky. you should setup an 800K Apple_Bootstrap type partition prefereably before any macos partitions and use ybin to install yaboot on it. > image = hd:8,\\vmlinux wrong. image=/boot/vmlinux label=linux root=/dev/whatever read-only partition=X # whatever partition number your root filesystem is install yaboot and read the yaboot.conf man page along with the ybin man page. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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