On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 02:12:42PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > I've been trying to install debian (potato) in a quadra 950, 1gb & > > 98mb ram. With penguin 18 and the "linux" kernel that comes by > > default, I got an error -17 just before booting, and after the boot, > > it stops when checking for scsi devices. > So penguin 18 doesn't work. > > With penguin 19 (and kernel 2.20) I get a little further, but it > > stops when trying to load the ram disk: > > Kernel Panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 00:00 > That means it can't find a rootdisk image. You need to specify the > location of the root.bin as a ramdisk in penguin's settings. Once you did > that, you should be able to boot and install. > After installing, don't forget to remove the reference to root.bin (else > you won't be able to do anything but installing ;-) Curiously, I've had no luck getting my Mac LC III to boot without the reference to root.bin... I actually have to load the ramdisk /and/ specify 'root=/dev/sda5' as a kernel parameter, otherwise Linux hangs while initializing the SCSI bus. Anyone seen that before, or have any ideas how to get around it? Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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