Bug#296960: pmac G4 AGP 350MHz Install Report
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 06:15:25PM -0600, Jeff Green wrote:
> Reboot: [E] (2.6.8) [O] (2.6.10 from ppckernel.org) [O]
> (2.6.11 ditto)
Oh well ...
> Comments/Problems:
>
> - Shell escaping with the installer presents a difficult situation for
> mounting other partitions since
> /dev/hd[ab]* is not recognized.
Sure, it uses devfs, so you need /dev/ide/host0/.../disc
> - install kernel-2.6.8-powerpc as part of the standard install.
Ok.
> - installed 2.6.10 & 11-rc4 (both from ppckernel.org) kernels onto hda5
> because I know what's coming.
Well, that is something that you should do post-reboot. Not during the install
like you did.
> - nb: 2.6.10 won't startx, and 2.6.11 will with fb driver config though
> w/o working wacom support.
> - also (tried to) install sven's 2.6.10-3-powerpc before rebooting but
> see below....
> - (NEED to sync yaboot.conf again between the two systems.)
> - REBOOT into base system:
> - kernel 2.6.8 hangs (with the following as the tail of the boot
> process:)
> TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
> VFS: Cannot open root device "hda5" or unknown-block(0,0)
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
> <0>Rebooting in 180 seconds..
This should not happen, i think your hardware is well suppported, but for some
reason the ide driver is not loaded in the initrd. I suspect this may be due
to you doing unorthodoxe kernel things during the install though, or is a bug
in initrd-tools. Mmm, maybe you simply forget to add the initrd entry in your
yaboot.conf ?
I would like :
1) a lspci and lspci -n output of your hardware.
2) if you could mount the initrd (both 2.6.10 and 2.6.8), and run a find on
it to check for the presence or absence of modules with the above list.
3) just to be on the safe side, the content of your yaboot.conf.
> - retry with 2.6.10 from ppckernel.org => comes up
> - needed to edit /etc/network/interfaces to change eth1 to eth0,
> networking wouldn't work otherwise
> - In the 'select and install' step, after selecting, the list of
> packages flies by and then a dialog
> saying one or more packages failed to install.
> - moved the /v/c/apt to /usr/v/c/apt, but still had the error (due to
> kernel-2.6.10-powerpc bad install)
Err, you seem to say there is a bad install, and see below for details, but i
am missing the details in question. So, please provide detailed info on that
too.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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