From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id fAFLhFO27886 for linux-mips-outgoing; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 13:43:15 -0800 Received: from smtp016.mail.yahoo.com (smtp016.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.113]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id fAFLhB027883 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 13:43:11 -0800 Received: from c1793011-a.marin1.sfba.home.com (HELO garrickevansw2k) (24.7.89.210) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 15 Nov 2001 21:43:11 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <003b01c16e1e$781aefb0$6401a8c0@autodesk.com> From: "Garrick Evans" To: "Linux MIPS" References: <1004708261.31067.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> <3BE2A852.AFF0D905@mips.com> <1005662974.10352.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20011113075543.A30676@lucon.org> Subject: SGI harddisk only - Debian install Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 13:42:45 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Just looking for a little help here getting woody running on an indy. My problem is once I boot the install kernel (linux), after the scsi snoop and network setup, it all dies on the following line: sending SDTR 011030130f0csync_xfer=2c<0>Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01 I have IRIX (5.3) on dksc(0,1) and two free drives dksc(0,3) and dksc(0,4) available for debian. I have the following files located at / and /boot directories on IRIX partition: linux, root.bin, root.tar.gz, kernel_config, drivers.tgz I have booted from the "maintainence console" (PROM) with almost every combination I can think of - always with the same failure. So... where is it looking to mount from? Do I need to make a new filesystem in the root parition of the scsi 3 disk and push the kernel and root.bin over there? If so, do I also then need to dvhtool the header on that disk as well? Any help would be HUGELY appreciated. Thanks. g _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com