RE: bootstrap (was Slink install on Falcon ....)
> 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
>
> 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
OK, I guess what you really mean is /dev/sdb1 swap, /dev/sdb2 root,
/dev/sda2 usr.
> 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.
This restriction should have been obsoleted by the boot disks update
finally released with Debian 2.1r5.
> I edited the bootargs file in the C:\Debian directory to -k linux
> root=/dev/sdb2 video=keep
Assuming it all fits on one single line, with no space between the
root= and the /dev/sdb2, this looks OK.
> 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
These 'root devices' are only ever searched by the kernel when the device
passed in the options line could not be opened, or didn't contain a valid
partition table. Both seems unlikely, as the installer found these devices
before.
What does the kernel report after the Partition check: line? Are there any
SCSI error or timeout messages?
Michael
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