* Re: sgi linux
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@ 1999-02-01 2:37 ` Alex deVries
1999-02-01 5:45 ` Eric Melville
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From: Alex deVries @ 1999-02-01 2:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eric Melville; +Cc: SGI Linux
I'm cc'ing this to the SGI mailing list. Eric, you should get yourself on
it.
On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Eric Melville wrote:
L> hi, i'm following your instructions for linux on an indy... to the
> extent of my knowledge, bootp/tftp/nfs are all working fine... so next
> comes time to boot the sucker. i enter "boot bootp():/vmlinux", and it
> fires up the kernel, claims to mount root fs via nfs, but then it
> stops... it says something like:
>
> Warning: cannot open initial console
> Kernel panic: try passing "init=" to the kernel
This is one of two things:
- your filesystem isn't exported properly from whatever nefs server you
have, in which case you need to veryify that /dev/console (at least) is
exported properly.
- you're trying to use a serial console, which is currently unsupported.
- Alex
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