From: "Garrick Evans" <sginux@yahoo.com>
To: "Linux MIPS" <linux-mips@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: SGI harddisk only - Debian install
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 17:05:19 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00a301c16e3a$c2a18b90$6401a8c0@autodesk.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 003b01c16e1e$781aefb0$6401a8c0@autodesk.com
sorry for the distrib...
boot tftpboot.img root=/dev/ram
works fine, i thought i tried it before once again, sorry for the distrib
----- Original Message -----
From: "Garrick Evans" <sginux@yahoo.com>
To: "Linux MIPS" <linux-mips@oss.sgi.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 1:42 PM
Subject: SGI harddisk only - Debian install
> 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
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-16 1:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-02 13:37 BE Toolchain Marc Karasek
2001-11-02 14:06 ` Dan Temple
2001-11-02 14:18 ` Marc Karasek
2001-11-02 15:36 ` H . J . Lu
2001-11-13 14:49 ` Marc Karasek
2001-11-13 15:55 ` H . J . Lu
2001-11-13 16:17 ` Marc Karasek
2001-11-13 16:30 ` H . J . Lu
2001-11-13 16:45 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-13 16:45 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-13 19:30 ` Pete Popov
2001-11-15 21:42 ` SGI harddisk only - Debian install Garrick Evans
2001-11-16 1:05 ` Garrick Evans [this message]
2001-11-02 15:49 ` BE Toolchain Bradley D. LaRonde
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