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thwint
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 Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 10:48 am Post subject: Installing Linux on a PA-Risc |
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Hi,
I recently started installing a Gentoo-Linux on a HP C110 workstation.
Until now everything went smoothly. I' am on stage 3 now.
I also installed PALO. But now the system can't boot. I always get the following error:
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VFS: cannot open root device "sdb4" or 08.14
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic unable to mount root fs
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Here is my palo.conf:
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# Please read /usr/share/doc/palo/palo.conf for more info
--commandline=4/boot/vmlinux root=/dev/sdb4 HOME=/
--init-partitioned=/dev/sdb
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Is there a driver missing in the kernel or anything else, which is wrong
configured?
Can anyone help me?
Cheers,
Tom
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cnf
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do u have multiple scsi disks in the machine ?
is the disk with linux on the one with the higher scsi id ?
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kellwood
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I think I can help with this one. Your palo.conf should look like this (I think):
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--commandline=4/vmlinux root=/dev/sdb4 HOME=/
--init-partitioned=/dev/sdb
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The "4" in "--commandline" means 4th partition, which is probably what you mount as /boot. You don't need what you think of as the path the vmlinux. There is a liitle note in the install manual that says:
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Important: The path to the kernel is relative to the root of the partition, not to the root of your file tree.
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That means you don't need the /boot in that line, assuming you set things up as they describe.
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