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 fAG15n912658 for linux-mips-outgoing; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 17:05:49 -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 fAG15i012655 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 17:05:44 -0800 Received: from c1793011-a.marin1.sfba.home.com (HELO garrickevansw2k) (24.7.89.210) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 16 Nov 2001 01:05:42 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <00a301c16e3a$c2a18b90$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> <003b01c16e1e$781aefb0$6401a8c0@autodesk.com> Subject: Re: SGI harddisk only - Debian install Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 17:05:19 -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 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" To: "Linux MIPS" 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 > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com