Message-ID: <38933067.D2702D86@teleport.com> Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 10:24:39 -0800 From: Alan Young <ayoung@teleport.com> Subject: Re: [suse-axp] 6.3 install problem
Hi,
I tried scd0: again with MILO and found it does work ok. I think I started
using sr0 because the MILO show command shows the cd as sr0 (so does the
kernel...).
Here are the last few events/messages that I scribbled down:
SCSI hard drive partition checks
some MS-DOS filesystem messages (mounting floppy?)
VFS: mounted root (iso9660 filesystem) readonly
Freeing unused kernel memory: 136K freed
Kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init=option to the kernel.
I see from Justin's response that their should be a prompt to put the
floppy in drive. I'm not getting that prompt.
I tried using the LX164 floppy, but that is worse. It does not recognize
my SCSI controller. It's a Intraserver ITI-4280UE card. It uses dual
Symbios/NCR 53c875 chips. The kernel on the CD does recognize the card.
I tried copying the kernel on the CD to the floppy, but it gave the same
panic.
Alan
Ruediger Oertel wrote:
>
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Alan Young wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I received SuSE-AXP 6.3 today. I'm trying to install it on a LX164 machine.
> > The machine has the AlphaBIOS (ARC) firmware. I'm trying to boot from the
> > CD, but it's not working. I can start MILO from the CD. Milo loads and
> > boots the kernel from CD, but the kernel fails in startup with the dreaded
> > "Unable to open initial console" message. The MILO boot string I'm using
> > is similar to the one rom section 2.1.2 of the manual (page 16).
> > The string is:
> > boot sr0:/etc/vmlinux.gz root=/dev/scd0 fake_initrd
> > The manual has "scd0:" where I have sr0:. I'm not sure why MILO is not
> > naming the devices the same. What does "fake_initrd" do ? Is it a typo?
> > Should it be initrd=<something>?
> Hm, I've always used scd0, I'd have to look into Milo's sources.
> Unfortunately, I have mostly Ruffians here as non-SRM machines, and they
> can not boot off CD at all; I'll try this next week on the LX (I had already
> thought ARC-machines can't boot off CD in general).
> fake_initrd is based on a minimal kernel-hack by me. It uses a root-disk from
> floppy, but makes the kernel believe it was a initial ramdisk. Since MILO
> can not load an initrd yet, this was the only way to be able to load a
> rootdisk and change to the real root-dev later on.
> >
> > Also, the manual seems to refer to an "initdisk (install)" floppy, but
> > there was no floppy in the box. I did make a disk from the disks/install
> > image on the CD and had that in floppy drive but it does not seem to help.
> Well, disks/install is the right image.
> >
> > I'm not sure what's wrong, but it to me it seems like it's not loading
> > a ramdisk and mounting that as root. Any ideas?
> What are the last lines from the kernel you get ?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Alan
> >
> >
>
> --
> with kind regards (mit freundlichem Grinsen),
> Ruediger Oertel (ro@suse.de)
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> does "DONT PANIC" give a hint ?
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