Re: PowerMac 7300/200
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 07:11:57PM +0100, Christian Winkler wrote:
> > The rescue disk has no bootloader on it...it only exists to copy the kernel
> > from during installation. Use the COFF kernel instead:
> >
> > boot fd:linux root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1
boot fd:linux root=/dev/0200 load_ramdisk=1
> OK, I almost suspected that. Thanks for the information and the
> images, however it still does not work.
>
> Booting your disk with the command above nicely boots the kernel,
> but then I get a message like
>
> request_module[block-major-15]: Root fs not mounted
> VFS: Cannot open root device 0f:d0
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 0f:d0
> Rebooting in 180 seconds...
>
> This still leaves me somehow clueless :-(.
>
> Maybe it is a problem of the floppy controller? This claims
> to be a SWIM3.
No, just a problem with my brain. :) Note that it passed 0f:d0...it
hexified the root device parameter.
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Matt Porter
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