Charles, I'm very, very lost looking at this Yellow Dog stuff. I think I'm going to be no help at all. Please excuse me if I get it totally wrong. Up front I cannot help with the unknown-block(0.0) part.
When I've seen the message you're getting coming from grub on my x86 systems it generally means that I've messed up what drive I've told grub to look on. Making the assumption that what ever is being used here instead of grub works the same way as grub then the question that comes to mind for me is whether the firewire drive is really sda? 1) Are your other drives called hdX or sdX? 2) Does this boot manager have the same capability as grub to allow you edit at the command line within it like grub? If so then you can do something like (sd and hit tab. If it works it would give you all the choices it believes you have. If it tells you sda sdb then you try (sdb and hit tab again and it would print a list of partitions. Possibly what you are thinking of as sda11 is readlly sdb11, etc. Wish I could help more. BTW: My interest is in 1394. I helped write some of the IEEE specs and use 1394 a lot myself. good luck, Mark On 6/4/05, Charles Trois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had put my question on this list two or three weeks ago, and Mark > Knecht was kind enough to take an interest in it. > Now, I have made some progress and the problem is different. > > To summarize: on my G4 iMac, Yellow Dog Linux 4.0.1 is installed on the > HD, and I want to install Gentoo on a FW drive. I have more or less done > it, using the 2005.0 universal disk. > > The problem now is that Gentoo does not boot: I get the message > > "Cannot open root device "sda11" or unknown-block(0.0). Please append > a correct "root=" boot option. > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on > unknown-block(0.0)" > > (and, by the way, the colours of the screen are very strange). > > On my other Linux, I can mount whatever is on the FW drive and inspect > it. In this way, I have found these bits: > > --/etc/yaboot.conf as written by Gentoo on the FW disk: > > boot=/dev/sda9 > device=/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/sbp-2/[EMAIL > PROTECTED]: > partition=11 > root=/dev/sda11 > timeout=30 > install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot > magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot > > image=/boot/kernel-2.6.10 > label=Linux > read-only > > --/etc/fstab as written by Gentoo on the FW disk: > > /dev/sda11 / ext3 noatimes 0 0 > /dev/sda12 /home ext3 defaults 0 0 > /dev/sda10 none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0 > > Looking at this, I don't see how /dev/sda11 could be wrong. But there is > the other question of the "unknown-block(0.0)" and I can't at all see > what it means. Could somebody kindly enlighten me? > > Charles > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
