From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 319 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2004 23:34:26 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 29 Nov 2004 23:34:26 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1CYv2I-00015r-Bv for arch-gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 23:34:26 +0000 Received: (qmail 29086 invoked by uid 89); 29 Nov 2004 23:34:25 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-mips-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail Reply-To: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-mips@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 23927 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2004 23:34:25 +0000 Message-ID: <41ABB203.6080305@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 18:34:27 -0500 From: "Stephen P. Becker" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041125) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org References: <1101332151.12250.17.camel@populus> <41A5307E.3060507@gentoo.org> <1101660743.27092.2.camel@populus> <41AA3D7F.1030504@gentoo.org> <1101763820.18017.5.camel@populus> <41AB98BD.6030203@vt.edu> <1101767520.18017.63.camel@populus> <41ABA500.3010506@gentoo.org> <1101769623.18017.104.camel@populus> In-Reply-To: <1101769623.18017.104.camel@populus> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-mips] arcboot problem R5000 o2 X-Archives-Salt: cbd993a4-66a4-487e-baf8-84a342cb41ac X-Archives-Hash: f1839125c3e32109297908e5f47d6b0b Andrew Finley wrote: > Your Good Steve, > I did forget to mount boot the last time. And got it to boot, part > way. I got a "kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing > init= option to the kernel" > > Sorry to keep bugging you, but I'm not sure where to find help (google > only works so far) :-) > > andy Well, that's interesting. It seems that both the kernel looks at OSLoadPartition from the prom when being loaded via arcboot. Arcboot uses OSLoadPartition to determine where the kernel and arcboot.conf are stored, and it uses the SGI naming scheme to do so (eg the pci(0)scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(X) bit). The kernel uses OSLoadPartition to determine the root device, and apparently the append="root=/dev/sda3" from arcboot.conf isn't getting passed, or is being overridden. Try changing OSLoadPartition to /dev/sda3 from the prom. Arcboot will spit an error that you should change it to something else, but then will scan the other partitions for /etc/arcboot.conf and should auto-detect what partition it really needs and then boot normally. Steve -- gentoo-mips@gentoo.org mailing list