From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id MAA109320 for ; Wed, 13 May 1998 12:28:17 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id MAA22795 for linux-list; Wed, 13 May 1998 12:26:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sgi.sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id MAA23433 for ; Wed, 13 May 1998 12:26:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sparc.life.nthu.edu.tw (life.nthu.edu.tw [140.114.98.21]) by sgi.sgi.com (980309.SGI.8.8.8-aspam-6.2/980304.SGI-aspam) via ESMTP id MAA11236 for ; Wed, 13 May 1998 12:26:38 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (mjhsieh@life.nthu.edu.tw) Received: from mjhsieh.life.nthu.edu.tw (mjhsieh.life.nthu.edu.tw [140.114.98.106]) by sparc.life.nthu.edu.tw (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA11041; Thu, 14 May 1998 03:24:17 +0800 (CST) Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19980514032548.00730fa8@140.114.98.21> X-Sender: mjhsieh@140.114.98.21 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 03:25:48 +0800 To: Alex deVries , linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com From: "Francis M. J. Hsieh" Subject: Re: Installer changes... In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk At 12:37 AM 1998/5/13 -0400, you wrote: >As per Mike Shaver's suggestions, I've made some changes to root-be (now >version 0.04), which affects Linux-installer (now version 0.2). The >changes listed are below. Tehy're all in teh GettingStarted directory. >root-be chnages include adding ftp, libncurses and /etc/protocols, >/etc/services and /etc/termcap. >There's also now a script in /etc/rc.d which creates new sd* devices if >they aren't created already. I'm sorry if this was discussed in the maillist. Should there be /etc dirctory after I cpio into my partition? I can't find /etc in my linux partition under installer prompt. BTW, I use the kernel in /pub/test/vmlinux-indy-2.1.99.tar.gz and got panic. The "NICE" panic message is: [deleted] sgiseeq.c: David S. Miller (dm@engr.sgi.com) eth0: SGI Seeq8003 blah:blah:blah:blah Partition check blah.... blah.... VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 32k freed Warning: unable to open an initial console. kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= optional to kernel. [halt] And I use the kernel in GetingStarted directory, and got panic, too. ("should not happened yet") -- Francis Meng Juei Hsieh, Life Science Department, NTHU, Taiwan. Welcome to Life Science BBS bbs.life.nthu.edu.tw