Re: Boot problem

[Richard Hirst <rhirst@linuxcare.com>]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 08:27:06AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> I made a new CD using the instructions in the PALO README.. I copied
> the contents of the 0.9.2 CD, replaced the kernel and iplboot,
> mkisofsed, then paloed the CD image, but when I boot up this CD
> it doesn't seem to load the RAM disk image, and then it can't
> find the root file system on /dev/ram0. Any idea where I went wrong?
> My kernel command line looks the same as when I boot the 0.9.2
> release.

Sounds like you gave the wrong instructions to palo, the official
debian-cd scripts do

palo --commandline="0/vmlinux root=/dev/ram initrd=0/ramdisk" \
     --recoverykernel=CD1/dists/$CODENAME/main/disks-hppa/current/32/linux \
     --recoverykernel=CD1/dists/$CODENAME/main/disks-hppa/current/64/linux \
     --bootloader=CD1/install/iplboot \
     --ramdisk=CD1/dists/$CODENAME/main/disks-hppa/current/root.bin \
     --init-cdrom=$CDIMAGE --configfile=/dev/null


The 0.9.2 CD wasn't made with debian-cd, but it was done pretty
much the same way.  In the top level of the CD you should find a
iso.conf file (iirc), containing


--commandline=0/vmlinux root=/dev/ram initrd=0/ramdisk
--recoverykernel=debian/dists/sid/main/disks-hppa/current/32/linux
--recoverykernel=debian/dists/sid/main/disks-hppa/current/64/linux
--bootloader=boot/iplboot
--ramdisk=debian/dists/sid/main/disks-hppa/current/root.bin
--init-cdrom=../cd.iso


so you might use that with 'palo --configfile=mkiso.conf'


Richard