Re: Installation Fun on SE/30
On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 11:51:55AM -0500, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 12:17:51PM -0400, Mauricio wrote:
> >
> > This morning I went checking it and saw it said installation was
> > complete. Kinda strange; I was expecting it to ask for stuff like
> > etc.tgz and so on, but it never asked. Could it be that it figured
> > out where to get it? I have enver installed Linux but in open/netbsd
> > it would ask which of those tarbals (etc.tgz, man.tgz, etc) I wanted
> > to install. But, debian here did not.
>
> Debian installs deb packages, not tarballs. Did you read the installation
> docs?
>
> > So, we reached the stage is asks to reboot. I let it start (to
> > synchronize partitions) and then turn the machine off. When I reboot
> > the computer, I go to Penguim and tell it not to use a ram disk and
> > tell it boot=/dev/sda5. After saving that I let it boot.
> >
> > It does not go very far. The error message I get is:
> >
> > Kernel panic : UFS : Unable to mount root fs on 00:00
> >
> > What could be wrong?
>
> You mean root=/dev/sda5? And you n key is broken, debiaN, penguiN.
Turn on the logging options in Penguin, that may help give you a better
idea what's wrong. Also, you may need other boot arguments. Anyone else
booting an SE/30?
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