Re: what can I do for debian installer for Alpha?

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

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.

For "root=/dev/rd/initrd" or "root=/dev/initrd" I will have to
rebuild.

MfG
        Goswin