Bug#259955: kernel-image-2.6.7-powerpc: kernel panic on iBook G4 - cannot open root device

[Daniel Glassey <wdg@debian.org>]

On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 15:59, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 03:22:12PM +0100, Daniel Glassey wrote:
> > Package: kernel-image-2.6.7-powerpc
> > Version: 2.6.7-3
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > I have built 2.6.7 locally and it is working fine. However the kernel
> > from this package is panicing.
> > 
> > VFS: Cannot open root device "hda6" or unknown-block(0,0)
> 
> Well, you are probably missing the initrd or something, you need to
> change your yaboot.conf to include the initrd. initrd=/boot/initrd.img
> should be enough i guess, but i am no yaboot user.
>
> Jens. I do believe that we should take more active actions to ensure
> that the user has a working system, or it will be a real mess.

Yep, that does it, thanks. I guess yabootconfig should be changed to put
that line in.
It could do with a warning as well when installing the kernel package
like there is on i386 - the are you really sure you have your boot
loader set up for initrd kinda one.

Now I just need to find what has broken the mouse (or what module needs
to be loaded) and hope that that is the only problem with the X server.

Thanks :)
Daniel

> Ah, could you reenable the voodoo fbdev also : 
> 
> 22:45 < Fab> sven: does it support voodoo 3 (pci), so that i can at
> least see something (last 2.6.7 only gave me a black screen) ?
> 
> Friendly,
> 
> Sven Luther


P.S. Please don't do: 
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