Subject: Re: Tap tap tap, this thing on?
From: Stefan Schroepfer (whoknows@onlinehome.de)
Date: Thu Jan 25 2001 - 23:02:05 PST
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
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