Re: State of the PA-RISC/HPPA port (August 2013)

[Dave Land <xmechanic@landcomp.net>]

On 8/6/13 6:18 AM, John David Anglin wrote:
> On 5-Aug-13, at 11:07 PM, Dave Land wrote:
>
> > Here's the error msg. and the backtrace:
> >
> > VFS: Cannot open root device "(null)" or unknown-block(0,)): error -6
> > Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available
> > partitions:
> >
> > 0300       20654 hda driver: ide-cdrom
> > 0810    35566480 sdb driver: sd
> > 0800    35566480 sda driver: sd
> > 0801     289138 sda1 e3470600-01   #palo/boot#
> > 0802    3903795 sda2 e3470600-02   #swap#
> > 0803   31366912 sda3 e3470600-03   #/#
>
> Make sure /dev is populated if doing this manually.  If using udev, the
> version with lenny fails with
> new kernels due to glibc issue.  Recommend you install latest version of
> glibc and udev from parisc
> archive.  Maybe you could put old lenny kernel in palo partition and see
> if it will boot.  Then, update
> glibc and udev.
>
> Dave
> --
> John David Anglin    dave.anglin@bell.net
I'll give it a try when I get some time. Pretty busy today. Thanks. :)

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