Dear all,
I need to install rh71 (kernel 2.4.2-2) on a gigabyte SR101,
having two IDE disks, connected to the controller PDC20265 (FastTrak
100), in mirror mode.
As it should be, when the vendor driver (ft.o) is loaded, the kernel
sees both disks (IDE) as a unic SCSI disk through the controller
PDC20265.
Here is the problem:
proceeding with a "manual" installation (boot using the default
boot.img, feeding the sistem with the right driver from a floppy)
everything works fine;
if I try to include the driver into the floppy ramdisk, the boot
procedure start, mount the ramdisk (initrd), load the vmlinuz and then
stop (!!) with the following message:
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
VFS: cannot open root device "" or 08:41
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:41
Do you have any idea ? Does anybody experienced something similar ?
Following you can find the log of creating the new ramdisk (quite
long ...).
Thanks,
Daniela
kickstart1# cd /linux-rh/boot-disks/rh71/
kickstart1# cp bootnet_102001.img bootnet_gigabyte_ft_102001.img
kickstart1# mount -o loop bootnet_gigabyte_ft_102001.img /sicr
kickstart1# cd /sicr
kickstart1# ls -l
total 1408
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 774399 Nov 19 17:41 initrd.img
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 6192 Apr 8 2001 ldlinux.sys
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 157 Nov 19 18:01 syslinux.cfg
kickstart1# gzip -dc /sicr/initrd.img > /tmp/initrd.ext2
kickstart1# mkdir /mnt/initrd
kickstart1# mount -o loop /tmp/initrd.ext2 /mnt/initrd
kickstart1# ls -l /mnt/initrd/modules/
total 332
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 488 Apr 9 2001 module-info
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 326543 Nov 19 17:36 modules.cgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 127 Apr 9 2001 modules.dep
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5879 Apr 9 2001 pcitable
kickstart1# gzip -dc /mnt/initrd/modules/modules.cgz > /tmp/modules.cpio
kickstart1# cd /tmp
kickstart1# mkdir modules
kickstart1# cd modules
kickstart1# cpio -idumv < ../modules.cpio
kickstart1# cd 2.4.2-2BOOT
kickstart1# ls -l
total 910
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33476 Apr 9 2001 3c59x.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9552 Apr 9 2001 8390.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26840 Apr 9 2001 agpgart.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51288 Apr 9 2001 de4x5.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 63996 Apr 9 2001 e100.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23248 Apr 9 2001 eepro100.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45086 Apr 9 2001 fat.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15316 Apr 9 2001 hid.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20112 Apr 9 2001 hp100.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7268 Apr 9 2001 input.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4128 Apr 9 2001 keybdev.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 74172 Apr 9 2001 lockd.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7968 Apr 9 2001 ne2k-pci.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 104662 Apr 9 2001 nfs.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17372 Apr 9 2001 pcnet32.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16092 Apr 9 2001 sis900.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 89964 Apr 9 2001 sunrpc.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46908 Apr 9 2001 tulip.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19056 Apr 9 2001 usb-ohci.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26976 Apr 9 2001 usb-uhci.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 75324 Apr 9 2001 usbcore.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14726 Apr 9 2001 vfat.o
kickstart1# cp /driver-promise/2.4.2-2BOOT/ft.o /tmp/modules/2.4.2-2BOOT
kickstart1# rm usb-* 3x59x.o hp100.o de4x5.o tulip.o
kickstart1#
kickstart1# ls -l
total 787
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9552 Apr 9 2001 8390.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26840 Apr 9 2001 agpgart.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 63996 Apr 9 2001 e100.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23248 Apr 9 2001 eepro100.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45086 Apr 9 2001 fat.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 104615 Nov 19 16:47 ft.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15316 Apr 9 2001 hid.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7268 Apr 9 2001 input.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4128 Apr 9 2001 keybdev.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 74172 Apr 9 2001 lockd.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7968 Apr 9 2001 ne2k-pci.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 104662 Apr 9 2001 nfs.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17372 Apr 9 2001 pcnet32.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16092 Apr 9 2001 sis900.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 89964 Apr 9 2001 sunrpc.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 75324 Apr 9 2001 usbcore.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14726 Apr 9 2001 vfat.o
kickstart1# cd /tmp/modules
kickstart1# find 2.4.2-2BOOT -depth > modules.list
kickstart1# cpio -o -cv < modules.list > modules2.cpio
2.4.2-2BOOT/8390.o
2.4.2-2BOOT/agpgart.o
2.4.2-2BOOT/e100.o
2.4.2-2BOOT/eepro100.o
2.4.2-2BOOT/fat.o
2.4.2-2BOOT/hid.o
2.4.2-2BOOT/input.o
2.4.2-2BOOT/keybdev.o
2.4.2-2BOOT/lockd.o
2.4.2-2BOOT/ne2k-pci.o
2.4.2-2BOOT/nfs.o
2.4.2-2BOOT/pcnet32.o
2.4.2-2BOOT/sis900.o
2.4.2-2BOOT/sunrpc.o
2.4.2-2BOOT/vfat.o
2.4.2-2BOOT/usbcore.o
2.4.2-2BOOT/ft.o
1523 blocks
kickstart1# ls -l
total 770
drwx------ 2 root root 1024 Nov 19 17:32 2.4.2-2BOOT
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 402 Nov 19 17:30 modules.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 779776 Nov 19 17:31 modules2.cpio
kickstart1# gzip modules2.cpio
kickstart1# mv modules2.cpio.gz modules.cgz
kickstart1# ls -l /mnt/initrd/modules/
total 338
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 488 Apr 9 2001 module-info
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 332260 Apr 9 2001 modules.cgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 127 Apr 9 2001 modules.dep
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5879 Apr 9 2001 pcitable
kickstart1# cp modules.cgz /mnt/initrd/modules/modules.cgz
kickstart1# cd /mnt/initrd/
kickstart1# ls -l
total 22
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 102 Apr 9 2001 .profile
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Apr 9 2001 bin -> sbin
drwxrwxrwx 4 root root 1024 Apr 9 2001 dev
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 1024 Apr 9 2001 etc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Apr 9 2001 linuxrc -> /sbin/init
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Apr 9 2001 lost+found
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 1024 Apr 9 2001 modules
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 1024 Apr 9 2001 proc
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 1024 Apr 9 2001 sbin
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 1024 Apr 9 2001 tmp
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 1024 Apr 9 2001 var
kickstart1# rm linuxrc
vi linuxrc
....
kickstart1# cat linuxrc
!#/bin/sh
/sbin/insmod ft.o
/sbin/init
kickstart1#
kickstart1# cd /
kickstart1# umount /mnt/initrd/
kickstart1# ls -l /tmp/
total 3054
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 11 Oct 26 10:57 .X0-lock
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 1024 Oct 26 10:57 .X11-unix
drwxrwxrwt 2 xfs xfs 1024 Oct 2 17:10 .font-unix
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2304000 Nov 19 16:32 initrd.ext2
kickstart1# cd /tmp
kickstart1# gzip initrd.ext2
kickstart1# mv initrd.ext2.gz initrd.img
kickstart1# ls -l /sicr/
total 1407
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 773163 Apr 8 2001 initrd.img
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 6192 Apr 8 2001 ldlinux.sys
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 101 May 10 2001 syslinux.cfg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 652144 Apr 8 2001 vmlinuz
kickstart1#
kickstart1# cp /tmp/initrd.img /sicr/
kickstart1# umount /sicr
kickstart1# dd < bootnet_gigabyte_ft_102001.img > /dev/floppy
#EOT
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