From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Jelinek Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 20:57:18 +0000 Subject: Re: More detailed UltraPenguin CD-ROM making instructions Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org > > Jakub Jelinek writes: > > > As I've received a couple of requests for more detailed instructions how to > > make the bootable CD, here they are: > > I followed the instructions, and ended up with a CD that would boot > the kernel off of the CD, but then fail with: > > "Unable to mount root filesystem on device: 0b:00" > > Any ideas what is wrong? It is loading the kernel from the CD and the > CDROM is the only CDROM attached to the machine. The above message is > preceeded by a "media changed on sr0" so I assume it is detecting the > CD and everything. Ok, I'd like to know at least some other messages from the kernel. Did it show some message about initrd being overwritten? Did it show the CD-ROM listed between SCSI devices? Cheers, Jakub ___________________________________________________________________ Jakub Jelinek | jj@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz Administrator of SunSITE Czech Republic, MFF, Charles University ___________________________________________________________________ Ultralinux - first 64bit OS to take full power of the UltraSparc Linux version 2.1.128 on a sparc64 machine (498.80 BogoMips). ___________________________________________________________________