RAMDISK trouble on Miata (PWS500a)?
Hi all,
I now have my long-awaited Personal Workstation 500a (aka Miata) here
... and of course I want to put Debian on it after having used it for
several years on all PCs I touch (with great pleasure :).
My problem is that I have not found a Debian RAMDISK image that works.
I can use the RedHat, Digital (from gatekeeper), or Debian MILO and Rescue
disks (the Debian ones with the kernel replaced with the latest Miata
kernel since I did not find a Miata-specific Debian kernel), and the bug is
the same.
I boot with
MILO> boot fd0:/vmlinux.gz root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1
and type return after having inserted the RAMDISK always results in
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
followed by some reading. But then...
* if the ramdisk is the REDHAT one then it comes up.
* if the ramdisk is the DEBIAN one then it stops with
[MSDOS ...]
unaligned trap 0xffffff....
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00
I suppose it is the RAMDISK because it happens with all the kernels - I can
even boot the RedHat ramdisk from the Debian rescue disk.
Thanks for any assistance,
Kristoffer
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