Re: installing G3/266 beige: which vmlinux ??
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 10:42:19AM +0100, Marc Coevoet wrote:
>
> Op 6-nov-05 om 09:48 heeft Sven Luther het volgende geschreven:
>
> >
> >So, are you installing a new machine, trying to take-over a messed up
> >install,
> >trying to use a debian kernel on a YDL root, trying to upgrade your
> >kernel ?
> >
>
> complete new install.
Ok.
> Could it be that my scsi does not spin up, due to a dip switch setting
> ???
> (I checked "force scsi on" in BootX)
>
> VFS: cannot open root device "sda2" or unknown block(0,0)
> please append a correct root= option ...
> kernel panic ..
>
> But the option root=/dev/sda2 is the right option ???
No, you don't need any such option, or you need the root=/dev/mem or
root=/dev/ram option, since you want to boot from the ramdisk.
The root=/dev/sd* will only be needed for the post-install reboot, and if you
are lucky, quik will do the right thing for you and you will not even need to
worry.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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