>>>>> On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 17:43:56 +0100 >>>>> "FVR" == Filip Van Raemdonck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: FVR> FVR> On my PWS500au system, it boots the kernel disk (net-1440.img) and prompts FVR> for the root disk (net-initrd-1440.img.new - now that I read it I see that FVR> I've forgotten to mv that image afterwards, someone add a line doing that FVR> please). FVR> It doesn't get further than that; when I insert the initrd disk and press FVR> enter I get an error: FVR> FVR> VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press ENTER FVR> <switch floppies, press enter> FVR> VFS: Cannot open root device "fd0" or 02:00 FVR> Please append a correct "root=" boot option FVR> Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 02:00
Search debian-alpha and debian-installer archieves for mine and Herbert Xu posts about a month ago. The trouble is that debian comes with kernel, where floppy disk support is put into module. FVR> And there it sits. FVR> The initrd is just /initrd.gz on an ext2 floppy, but ext2 should work just FVR> as fine as vfat AFAIK. I'm not sure what the problem is, and I'm not going FVR> to look into it anymore today. -- Alexander Kotelnikov Saint-Petersburg, Russia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
