Bob Ogden schrieb: > > so when I do boot fd0:linux.gz root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk it should work? > Trouble is that it doesen't here! boot fd0:linux.gz root=/dev/fd0 > load_ramdisk=1 dies with You didn't specify the type of your ufs file > system > mount -t ufs -o > ufstype=sun|sunx86|44bsd|old|nextstep|nextstep-cd|opensep... > >>>WARNING<<< Wrong ufstype may corrupt your filesystem, default is > ufstype=old ufs_read_super: bad magic number > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 02:00
boot fd0:/linux.gz root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 should allow you to boot via floppies, note the "=1" at the end of the line (at least it worked for me with potato r0 on a ARC based machine (PC164). How did you create your root (or ramdisk) floppy? Using dd? > boot hdb:linux root=/dev/hdb load_ramdisk=1dies with > Unable to open initial console. > Kernel panic No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel Booting from CD doesn�t work on ARC based machines. :-( Good luck, Stefan Schroepfer
