Re: Another UDB/Multia installation question

[manning@uclink4.berkeley.edu]

Thanks... I could have sworn I'd tried that... i was almost certain i did! :P
anyway, thanks... you WERE right... and i'm just out of it or something...
Something about the difference between "rootdisk" and "ramdisk" threw me off a
bit...

Jesse

Christopher C Chimelis wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Jun 1999 manning@uclink4.berkeley.edu wrote:
>
> > Ok, i'm trying to install slink, and i'm booting from ARC ok, off the
> > floppy, and i get to the milo prompt. After some haggling, i got it to
> > do something. here's the boot thingey...
> >
> > MILO> boot fd0:/linux "root=/dev/fd0"
> >
> > it's all ok, until it loads the root thing. Right after, it does a
> > kernel panic because it can't mount /dev/console. Any idea what this is?
> > or what i'm doing wrong?
>
> Having just done this with my SX (we have AlphaBIOS, but it's pretty much
> the same), try feeding this to MILO:
>
> MILO> boot fd0:/linux root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1
>
> And have your "root" disk ready (it'll ask for it).  In short, without
> telling it to prompt you to insert the disk you wish to load into RAM,
> it'll assume that the disk image is already inserted, causing the kernel
> panic.  Also, without the extra options, it doesn't even know that it
> needs to load the image into RAM and the floppy doesn't have enough room
> to expand that image into.
>
> Give it a shot and let me/us know if it works for you :-)
>
> Good luck!!!!
>
> C