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Re: Frustrated Amiga needs help at booting from HD!



CiaO Gul Junaz,

>hello!

>first of all, the stuff i'm talking about:

>A4000/040/16MB/3GB
>debian (base2_1, amiboot-5.6), successfully installed using StartInstall

>i was NOT given the opportunity to create a boot floppy or get a
>bootloader starting it (both was said to be "still impossible"). that
>alone wouldn't really hurt, but after doing a

>  'amiboot-5.6 -k linuxamiga /dev/hda2 ro'

why do you use this command line!
I think it is wrong!
use -> amiboot-5.6 -k linuxamiga root=/dev/hda2 video=pal or ntsc! (it depends
from you!)

>it apparently doesn't even try to start from harddisk (although it
>recognizes my root and swap partitions), but... well, here's the
>output:

>Root-NFS: Unable to open at least on network device.
>Root-NFS: Unable to contact NFS Server for root fs, using /dev/fd0
>          instead.
>VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER.

I don't know nothing about this!

>i tried feeding it with a random floppy, which led to kernel panic :)

>who can help?



>Gul Junaz



Roberto.


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