On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:22:03 -0800, Daniel Gimpelevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 10:31:58 -0500: > > > *** I (Eric) found that the RAM disk option was redundant for my > > OldWorld machine-- it caused my kernel to panic so I disabled it in > > BootX (make sure you click save to make the change permanent in case > > you enabled it). I suspect that you use the RAM disk option when > > you're installing/upgrading YDL 4.0 from CD, not when running the > > machine (my mistake)? > > When I said the option must now be ON, I was referring only to running the > machine, not installation. If it causes a kernel panic, you need to supply > a root= kernel arg.
I'm thinking I shouldn't have touched my system now because there's a whole slew of dependency problems (I no longer have a _single_ web browser on the system -- no mozilla, firefox, epiphany or konquerer (for that matter, KDE is not available but at least GNOME is somewhat functional... fortunately 95% of the server services seem to be chugging along nicely, and SMB sharing now shows the right file size in OS X)). Perhaps it's time to try a full clean install of 4.0 onto /? Anyway, "root=" seems to crash the system when I use a RAM disk. For that matter, I *cannot* get the 2.6.9 .img setting to boot with BootX 1.2.2 (should I be using a different version of BootX?). I've also tried passing: rghb quiet init= init= init=rghb quiet =init I do end up getting slightly different screen outputs depending on the sequence used but all of them end with the complaint of kernel panic, and pass init= to the kernel at boot. Only when I do _NOT_ use the .img/RAM disk will the computer boot reporting INIT: 2.85. I'm going to give init=2.85 a try. Why do you say the RAM disk MUST be used? PS I'm trying to do this on a Rev A Beige G3/266. Eric. _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
