RE: bootstrap (was Slink install on Falcon ....)
Here is a summary of my install steps and my setup. I should have provided
this from the start. My apologies.
Hardware:
Stock Falcon 030 with clock mod. (CenTurbo IIB is in the mail!)
14M RAM Atari Memory board
Stock 80M IDE harddrive Partitions C-F
Two 202M SCSI 2 drives. SCSI ID 0 & 1
One NEC CDR-73 SCSI CD ROM Drive. SCSI ID 2
Software/Linux install:
I tried to install several times and the machine kept locking up. I finally
removed the CD ROM driver and that didn't help. I read the list archives
and saw where Roman talked about running in 16 color mode made things run
better. This was my problem as I was running in 256 color mode.
I used HD Driver to partition my two SCSI drives:
/dev/hdb1 is 32M of swap (partition ID SWP)
/dev/hdb2 (the rest of the disk) is / (root)
/dev/hda2 is usr. I tried to use the whole disk but found out it wasn't
recognized by the install program. I searched the list Archives (See I do
read some!) and saw where there was a bug and that I had to create a small
partition (I used it for TOS) in order for the install program to "see" it.
Next I used PARC to transfer the install.lzh file from my PC.
I unarchived everything to the Debian directory.
I followed the install.txt directions in the disks-m68k/current/atari
directory
When it came time to configure modules I didn't configure any. I did as the
instructions said and just exited out of the screen and continued.
I didn't configure any network stuff. Gave the machine a name and answered
'no' to the question are you connected ...
I edited the bootargs file in the C:\Debian directory to -k linux
root=/dev/sdb2 video=keep
I double click on bootstra.prg and linux boots and everything looks pretty
good until I get the following lines:
Root-NFS: Unable to open at least one network device
Root-NFS: Unable to contact NFS server for root fs, using /dev/fd0
instead
VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER
And that is the whole story!
I have traced my steps and the only thing I can think of that deviated from
the instructions was the following:
I unarchived the install.lzh into the Debian directory and not in the C:\
This is the only detail I can think of that is not exactly like the
install.txt says. I don't know if this could make a difference or not.
Regards,
Brian
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Schmitz [mailto:schmitz@opal.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de]
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 12:22 PM
To: Brian Hutchinson (EUS)
Cc: 'debian-68k@lists.debian.org'
Subject: Re: bootstrap (was Slink install on Falcon ....)
> I replaced my bootargs with:
>
> -k linux root=/dev/sdb2 video=keep
>
> Hope that clears some things up.
>
> No I didn't use yyyy. I'm not THAT dumb. Well almost :)
Ok, in that case please post a more detailed description of your
configuration (what other disks, how partitioned?).
Michael
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