Re: trying to install slink from cdrom on ds10...
> Oh! I just realised - you said you set boot_flags, right? It should be
> boot_osflags...
>
> Just in case, I also found two useful kernel parameters: "panic=n",
> where n is the number of seconds to wait after displaying the panic
> message, and "no-scroll", which disables VGA console scrolling.
> Theoretically, either one of them should be sufficient for you to see
> the actual panic message. And you can pass the parameters on the boot
> command line like this:
> >>> boot dqa0 -flags "root=/dev/hda panic=10"
Nikita, you are the King! boot_flags was a misprint in my mail -- it was
really boot_osflags on the machine. I set panic=300 and saw the
following:
request_module[nls_iso8859-1]: Root fs not mounted
Unable to load NLS charset iso8859-1
VFS: Mounted root (iso9660 filesystem) readonly
Freeing unused kernel memory: 160k freed
Warning: unable to open an initial console
Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel
Which I guess is a good point. Can't seem to find a live filesystem
containing init on the CD. Should I be loading something into a RAMdisk?
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matthew whitworth
matthew@okcomputer.org
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