On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 04:57:39PM +0000, David Pead wrote: [...] > I'm using BootX from a small OS9 partition. I've used a net-drivers floppy > to run the installer. I used "guided" partitioning option, installaton > starts, fine. Then at the end it tries to use install quik, I'm not to sure > on playing with OF so select complete without bootloader. Then am told > location of boot disk (/dev/sda7) and to pass "root=/dev/sda7" as a kernal > argument. > > When I've attempted to re-boot via bootX with above details a bunch of stuff > flashes past the screen and ends with something like "VFS cannot open root > device sda7 please append a correct root= option" > > Can anyone help/hold my hand through this install? The kernel you boot with via BootX needs a initrd to work. I think the init in the initrd will find out which root partition it should use. So don't use root=/dev/sda7 but root=/dev/ram and initrd=<initrd.img> where <initrd.img> is a file available for BootX with the initrd. BTW. I have recently figured out how to configure OF to work with quik, and I only need to set one parameter, the boot-device parameter. So if you want to I give some advice on how to configure OF so you won't need to boot via MacOS. -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <hans@sociologi.cjb.net> GnuPG key: 1024D/7050614E Fingerprint: 1408 C8D5 1E7D 4C9C C27E 014F 7C2C 872A 7050 614E Learn about secure email at http://www.gnupg.org
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