On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 16:14:34 -0500 Eric Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. Do you mean it crash when you use the initrd.<version>.img file found in /boot or the ramdisk.image.gz from the CD? _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
