Re: Debian 2.2 on a Quadra

["Christian T. Steigies" <cts@debian.org>]

On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 12:01:47PM -0500, Jeff & Erika Sparks wrote:
> I've got the CD's and went through Mark Scott's Install Instructions, I've
> got two questions/problems:
> 
> 1) There is no 'Penguin' icon on the CD in the install/mac directory (all
> the icons are generic document images). So I tried doing it from the icon on
> the HD that was created from de-stuffing Penguin-18. This leads me to my 2nd
> issue
That seems to be misleading in the documentation, I think you did it the
right way.
 
> 2) After setting "Kernel = linux" and "ramdisk = root.bin" & saving the
> prefs, I try booting into Linux. The machine scrolls through the boot
> messages then hangs on
> "Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00"

>From the potato page:
I am trying to install Debian on my Mac, but when I start the Penguin I get: 

     RAMDISK : Compressed image found at block 0
     VFS : Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
     VFS : Cannot open root device 00:00
     Kernel panic : VFS : Unable to mount root fs on 00:00

     You forgot to add 

     root=/dev/ram

     to the kernel boot options in Penguin. 

Maybe you should also NOT put spaces around the "=". It may look nicer, but
I am not sure how tolerant Penguin is.

Christian
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