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

[Neil Roeth <neil@debian.org>]

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:

.
.
.
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.

-- 
Neil Roeth