Re: [suse-sparc] Cannot open root device

From: Thorsten Kukuk (kukuk@suse.de)
Date: Tue Nov 28 2000 - 00:48:38 PST

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    Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 09:48:38 +0100
From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
Message-ID: <20001128094838.A11118@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Cannot open root device

    Hi,

    On Tue, Nov 28, Andre Belem wrote:

    > Hi,
    >
    > I'm installing SuSE 7.0 on a UltraSPARC 60. I'm just using all defaults
    > (/boot on /dev/sda1, swap on /dev/sda2 and / on /dev/sda4).
    > The SILO installation is also default (I supposed!) but after
    > installing all machine, I can't reboot again.
    >
    > It looks like that the SILO is wrong (of course ! on my silo.conf root
    > is mounted on /dev/sda5, that doesn't exist).

    Could it be that you have installed with the old YaST1 ?

    > I worked already with RH 6.2 and I remember that I had an initrd file,
    > which is missing on SuSE. Could be that the problem ??

    Yes, you should have a /boot/initrd file. You have none ?
    Do you have a INITRD_MODULES="sym53c8xx" in /etc/rc.config ?

    If not, it look like YaST1 aborts before installing the silo.conf file.

    To fix the current solution:

    Boot into linuxrc and select "boot installed system".
    Then add INITRD_MODULES="sym53c8xx" to /etc/rc.config and run
    "mk_initrd". After this edit /boot/silo.conf and to be sure rerun
    "silo". Now you should be able to boot. 

    -- 
Thorsten Kukuk       http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/       kukuk@suse.de
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