On Fri, 26 Mar 2021, Casey Offord wrote: > Hello, > > I've been trying to get my IIfx booting with 68k Linux. I'm using a > ramdisk (initrd-serconsole from the mac.linux-m68k FTP), kernel file > (vmlinux-4.14.221-mac-backport+), and Penguin 19. I'm getting a kernel > panic when it tries to mount a file system on the ramdisk.
I tried this in QEMU. Launching /sbin/init fails and the kernel panics with "Attempted to kill init". When I examined the initrd-serconsole.gz file, I see that /dev is empty. So I used "root=/dev/ram init=/bin/sh" and I got a prompt: bash# mount -n -t devtmpfs none /dev bash# exec /sbin/init Remounting root file system read-write EXT4-fs (ram0): warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended EXT4-fs warning (device ram0): ext4_update_dynamic_rev:796: updating to rev 1 because of new feature flag, running e2fsck is recommended EXT4-fs (ram0): re-mounted. Opts: Starting update Mounting filesystems: warning: process `update' used the obsolete bdflush system call Fix your initscripts? /proc on /proc type proc (rw) init: cannot open inittab Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000100 I didn't dig any deeper. That initrd is 20 years old, and may or may not work with 20 year old kernels. Who knows? > I'm going to guess I don't have the right initrd file to run with this > kernel. The kernel seems to be fine. It works with a busybox initrd I have. > Can anyone point me to the correct initrd? Or, since I have an A/UX > partition and swap prepared for this install, can I do this without an > initrd? > If you want to install Debian, you should first try the kernel and initrd from the Debian installer ISO. You can find it here, https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/current/ > Thanks, > Casey >
