Re: OldWorld won't boot new 2.6
On Monday 22 March 2004 21:46, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 12:41:47PM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> > On Monday 22 March 2004 12:28, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> > > On Monday 22 March 2004 12:07, Rich Johnson wrote:
> > > > On Monday, March 22, 2004, at 11:51 AM, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> > > > > I've got the same problem with my PowerMac 9600, booting
> > > > > using BootX, except that it doesn't initialize either the
> > > > > video console (IMS Twin Turbo) or serial console, so I get no
> > > > > kernel messages, just a blank stare. : /
> > > > >
> > > > > Any suggestions?
> > > >
> > > > Just a shot in the dark :-)
> > > >
> > > > I have this problem whenever I try to boot 2.4 directly into
> > > > Linux--I haven't tried with 2.6 just yet. I work around it by
> > > > first booting MacOS, and then use the BootX app to lauch Linux.
> > > > It's annoying, but linux is stable enough that I only have to
> > > > do it every 200 days or so when the power goes out.
> > >
> > > Nope, still does the same thing. 2.4.22-powerpc boots just fine,
> > > except that it doesn't properly initialize the framebuffer, and
> > > the serial driver is build as a module, so I don't have a console
> > > on it.
> > >
> > > :/
> >
> > Update: I thought I'd try 2.4.25-powerpc, and I get the same
> > results as with 2.6.x...
>
> Mmm, not cool. This is the one i built, right ? Have you tried also
> 2.4.25-powerpc-small ?
It looks like that sort-of works. I now have a working framebuffer, at
least! : )
However, I get the following error message repeated over and over on the
display:
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initrd-tools: 0.1.62
/sbin/init: 283: cannot open tmp/root: No such file
warning: can't open /etc/mtab: No such file or directory
umount: tmp: not mounted
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Any ideas?
Pat
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