Netinstall
Hi,
I'm trying to install Sarge on a Toshiba Portege R100 laptop. This
machine does not have a CD-ROM or floppy drive built in and I don't have
access to any USB drives, so I'm doing a network install over PXE/TFTP.
I've successfully set up the TFTP server and the laptop is loading
images from it, but I can't seem to find the right images to load. I can
make it load the kernel and the ramdisk, it then boots up until:
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 2324 freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Mounted devfs on /dev
VFS: Cannot open root device "" or 3a:04
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 3a:04
The /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default file I use contains:
default lanlinux
prompt 1
label lanlinux
kernel vmlinuz
append load initrd=initrd.gz devfs=mount
(tried with or without the devfs=mount, both same result). I'm using the
files from
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/
, tried playing around with some of the other images (floppy, hd-media),
but that never got anywhere.
If I use the files
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/bf2.4/linux.bin
and
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/bf2.4/root.bin
the machines boots fully and I can access and partition the disk.
Unfortunately the NIC (Intel pro/100 VE) driver for this machine isn't
included in woody so I can't go on from there and am still stuck.
Any help would be much appreciated, thanks in advance,
Marc
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