Re: debian-installer alpha support patch
>>>>> On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 17:43:56 +0100
>>>>> "FVR" == Filip Van Raemdonck <mechanix@debian.org> wrote:
FVR>
FVR> On my PWS500au system, it boots the kernel disk (net-1440.img) and prompts
FVR> for the root disk (net-initrd-1440.img.new - now that I read it I see that
FVR> I've forgotten to mv that image afterwards, someone add a line doing that
FVR> please).
FVR> It doesn't get further than that; when I insert the initrd disk and press
FVR> enter I get an error:
FVR>
FVR> VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press ENTER
FVR> <switch floppies, press enter>
FVR> VFS: Cannot open root device "fd0" or 02:00
FVR> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
FVR> Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 02:00
Search debian-alpha and debian-installer archieves for mine and
Herbert Xu posts about a month ago. The trouble is that debian comes
with kernel, where floppy disk support is put into module.
FVR> And there it sits.
FVR> The initrd is just /initrd.gz on an ext2 floppy, but ext2 should work just
FVR> as fine as vfat AFAIK. I'm not sure what the problem is, and I'm not going
FVR> to look into it anymore today.
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Alexander Kotelnikov
Saint-Petersburg, Russia
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