Hi members,
after having trouble with rebboting my old 8200 into mdk I found this
hint in the list and thought that Stew's advice is the solution for
me:
>In a message dated 6/21/2002 6:58:42 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
...
>9) After the install finishes I copy the BootX App, BootX Extension and
>the Linux Kernels folder to my System folder.
I also did that according to the usual procedures (copying the
folder Linux Kernels with the 4 files all.gz, all-2.2.gz, vmlinux and
vmlinz-2.2 into the system folder...)
>10) I restart my Mac and I'm greeted with BootX. The only option I plug
>into BootX is sdb5 for the Root device
sda7 ;)
>11) I then click on the Linux button to boot into linux
I also did that
>12) I recived a message that states "VFS: Cannot open root device
>"sdb5" or 08:15" "Please append a correct "root=" boot option" "Kernel
>panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:15" "Rebooting in 180
>seconds.."
I get the same error message therfore I tried Stew's advice:
>Sounds like you're most of the way there. The piece you're lacking is
>to used the kernel and initrd in the BootX folder on the CD to boot
>the installed system. Copy them to an appropriate place in MacOS (Linux
>Kernels folder?) then specify the initrd in BootX, as well as that
>kernel, use sdb5, and add the option:
I copied them already to the desired places... but: when I try to
specify the initrd (form the Linux Kernel Folder in the System
folder) you mentioned above then it's impossible to add the root dev
information (such as sdb7) into the field next to the root device?????
because I only see the ramdisk size info???
>devfs=mount to the kernel arguments.
I also tried to provide BootX with that kind of information - no success
>You need the initrd as it had the mesh and sd modules to access the SCSI
>drive.
>HTH, Stew Benedict
At the moment: Not for me ;-)
Greetings Harald
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