Bug#273363: marked as done (Alphastation 255 ramdisk probs on d-i netboot)
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Debian-installer-version: from ~jbaily daily images Sept 25 2004 02:11am EST
uname -a: n/a
Date: Sep 25 2004 13:00 EST
Method: bootp image from a known-good tftp server used for other installs
Machine: Alphastation 255
Processor: unknown estimated 230MHz
Memory: 64M
Root Device: n/a
Root Size/partition table: n/a
Output of lspci and lspci -n: n/a
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [E]
Configure network HW: [ ]
Config network: [ ]
Detect CD: [ ]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Detect hard drives: [ ]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Create file systems: [ ]
Mount partitions: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
detects 8192 pages in 3 memclusters
vga+ console fine
acks 64M total RAM
"boot options" is "0x0"
ramdisk driver init 16 disks @8192K size
ramdisk finds compressed image
ramdisk frees 3017K initrd
VFS mounted root (ext2 filesytem).
...all the above looked relatively normal up to here:
attempt to access beyond end of device
01:00: rw=0, want=10912, limit=8192
attempt to access beyond end of device
01:00: rw=0, want=10912, limit=8192
VFS: Cannot open root device "" or 08:02
then the standard "Please append a correct
blah blah blah..." stuff.
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Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 16:24:58 -0700
From: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
To: "Brian S. Julin" <bri@abrij.org>, 273363-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#273363: Problem was in aboot param passing
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On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 06:57:33PM -0400, Brian S. Julin wrote:
> After grepping through the root.bin image for the correct paramters,
> and applying them using the SRM -fl option, I was able to start the
> installer. So the real issue is that the default kernel commandline
> contained in aboot is not making it through to the booted kernel.
This is documented in the current install manual. You should be booting
with boot ewa0 -flags "" to avoid overwriting the built-in boot options.
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Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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