Re: what can I do for debian installer for Alpha?
On Oct 19, Goswin von Brederlow (brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de) wrote:
> Neil Roeth <neil@debian.org> writes:
>
> > It booted, but died very early, while trying to mount the ramdisk, rd/0. (If
> > this sounds familiar, it's because I posted it to debian-alpha.) Any ideas?
> > I'm still looking into this one.
> >
> > RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384k size 1024k blocksize
> > .
> > .
> > .
> > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> > Freeing initrd memory: 2249k freed
> > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
> > Mounted devfs on /dev
> > VFS: Cannot open root device "rd/0" or 00:00
> > Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00
>
> Can you edit the aboot options from "root=/dev/rd/0" to
> "root=/dev/ram " or "root=/dev/ram0"? Just edit the iso.
I did this instead by entering the boot command manually using each of these.
They both fail with the following messages:
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.
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VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernal memory: 192k freed
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
attempt to access beyond end of device
01:00: rw=0, want=8303, limit=8192
attempt to access beyond end of device
01:00: rw=0, want=8304, limit=8192
.
.
.
attempt to access beyond end of device
01:00: rw=0, want=8310, limit=8192
Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
The cdrom-boot.iso image you pointed me to fails with the same messages for
the same variations.
> For "root=/dev/rd/initrd" or "root=/dev/initrd" I will have to
> rebuild.
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Neil Roeth
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