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From: Andrew Finley <afinley@×××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-mips@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-mips] arcboot problem R5000 o2
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 23:07:08
Message-Id: 1101769623.18017.104.camel@populus
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-mips] arcboot problem R5000 o2 by "Stephen P. Becker"
1 Your Good Steve,
2 I did forget to mount boot the last time. And got it to boot, part
3 way. I got a "kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing
4 init= option to the kernel"
5
6 Sorry to keep bugging you, but I'm not sure where to find help (google
7 only works so far) :-)
8
9 andy
10
11
12 On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 16:38, Stephen P. Becker wrote:
13 > Andrew Finley wrote:
14 > > Hi Steve,
15 > > Ok I moved the kernel and /etc/arcboot.conf to my /boot (and as noted in
16 > > the man page, made a link from boot to boot) and changed my arcboot.conf
17 > > to reflect the changes.
18 > >
19 > > Now in the prom I resetenv so that:
20 > > SystemPartition = pci(0)scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(8)
21 > >
22 > > then ran arcboot - then it says it can't find the arcboot.conf or an
23 > > ext2fs. Then it says to adjust OSLoadPartition to
24 > > pci(0)scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(2) Which I tried with no success
25 > > I also tried pci(0)scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1) with no success.
26 > > My boot partition is on sda1, root is sda3, and swap is sda2.
27 > >
28 > > any ideas what I'm doing dumb?
29 > >
30 >
31 > You shouldn't *have* to adjust OSLoadPartition actually. Arcboot
32 > auto-detects that. You did mount /dev/sda1 on /boot *before* you
33 > copied the config file and made the symlink didn't you?
34 >
35 > In any case, I have the same configuration you do in terms of partition
36 > layout (with the exception of sdb1 mounted on /usr), and it WorksForMe(TM).
37 >
38 > Steve
39 >
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43 >
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Re: [gentoo-mips] arcboot problem R5000 o2 "Stephen P. Becker" <geoman@g.o>