From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 19:34:24 +0200 From: Olaf Hering To: Leigh Brown Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: More on booting 43P-140 Message-ID: <20010714193424.A23530@suse.de> References: <36062.192.168.1.2.995129406.squirrel@fridge.bcc.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <36062.192.168.1.2.995129406.squirrel@fridge.bcc.co.uk>; from leigh@solinno.co.uk on Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 05:50:06PM +0100 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Sat, Jul 14, Leigh Brown wrote: > > Hi all, > > After an embarrasing hour when I couldn't work out why the root fs disk > wasn't being recognised for my kernels but was for the one I downloaded, > I have finally made it into the install program for SuSE 7.1 and Debian > woody. However, both have the same problem - they say I don't have any > disks! This is weird because in both installers I can bring up a shell > and manually create and mount an ext2 partition on hdisk1 (/dev/sdb). Do you have devfs active in your .config? If yes, boot with "nodevfs" or devfs=off. cat /proc/partitions should show /dev/sdaX and notsomething different. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented... ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/