On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 07:26:59PM +0300, Meelis Roos wrote: > Hi, > > I wanted to try 2.6.12-1 as packaged by Debian, on my Quadra 840AV. > I have heard that it should work (modulo hwclock and maybe ADB). So I > installed the kernel package, copied vmlinuz and initrd to the Mac > partition and tried to boot it with Penguin 19. I specified the image > and initrd to Penguin and tried different root= command lines. > > I have root on /dev/sdb4, using ext3. It works fine with Debian 2.2.25 > kernel. > > Not root= at all gave cannot mount root on (0,0) - OK, expected. > root=/dev/sdb4 gave cannot mount root on (8,20) - weird. > root=/dev/ram and root=/dev/ram0 gave both the same non-zero numbers > (probably major,minor of /dev/ram0) and didn't boot either. > > Dmesg shows that it detects my SCSI disks and that it loaded ramdisk of > 820 KB in size. Ext3 seems to be built into kernel. What am I doing > wrong here?
Actually, ext3 should be in the initrd, but I am not sure if I got the config right. Did you tell the kernel where to find the initrd? On my Amiga, I added this to the boot args: initrd=initrd.img-2.6.12-1-amiga I am sure I had to use something similar on my Q840AV. Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
