Re: Sorry, more problems from me...
Dakota Duff wrote:
>
> I get the feeling that I'm gradually inching closer to a successful
> installation. However, I'm still not there.
>
> I've RE-partitioned my hard drive. I now have a 20mb swap and about
> 56mb of root&usr. Anyhow I have a Mac partition for sda1, my
> root&usr for sda2 and my swap for sda3. I've also removed my IIci
> cache card since I heard that cache cards may or may not interfere.
> The problem that I seem to be having doesn't appear to be a hardware
> problem, however.
>
> So now I open the Penguin application and I go to settings. I make
> sure that my selected kernel is linux (the one that came with my
> debian distribution). I also make sure that I have my ramdisk
> selected. The only option that I check is use penguin colors. I
> boot...
>
> Everything goes fine at first. Then it complains that it is unable
> to locate a root device. It looks for an NFS server and when it
> can't find one it checks fd0/. That means that it's searching for a
> floppy disk, right? What I can't understand is why? I followed the
> installation readme to the best of my knowledge. One thing that the
> readme does say is:
>
> In case the installation program complains about not finding any
> disks or partitions to install on, try a newer kernel or check your
> partition types again.
>
> I tried to use the 'stable' kernel from mac.linux-m68k.org (2.2), but
> it crashes with an error type 1 when I try to use it. I've had it
> suggested that I add to the kernel options in the booter settings,
> but add what? I've checked the readme and it doesn't offer me any
> solutions in that avenue. Anyway, any type of help would be
> appreciated... Thanks again.
>
> Dakota Duff
>
The kernel options should contain the following for installing a Mac
IIci:
root=/dev/ram mac5380=4,2 video=font:VGA8x8
When the install reboots and you are back in MacOS you need to modify
the root=/dev/ram to be root=/dev/sd?? where the ?? is the drive
identifier letter and partition number that the linux root is located
on. Hope this helps.
Ray Knight
audilvr@speakeasy.org
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