hppa booting problems

[schaecsn]

Hi all,

I try to install gentoo on a hp 712/60.

[I have some problems compiling the kernel. I intend to look at that later. Thus I do use the kernel and /lib/modules from the boot cd.]

besides not rolling my own kernel I've done everything according the installation instructions. when booting, palo cannot mount the root parition:

VFS: cannot open root device /dev/sda3.

Any idea of what I do wrong? when booting from cd I can mount /dev/sda3 and there are all the files and directories of the distribution.


here is the layout of my 2 GB disk. root is obivously sda3 ------

Command (m for help):
Disk /dev/sda: 2161 MB, 2161991680 bytes
67 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1016 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4154 * 512 = 2126848 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 16 33201 f0 Linux/PA-RISC boot
/dev/sda2 17 77 126697 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda3 78 1016 1950303 83 Linux

Command (m for help):


here is palo.conf -----------------------------------------------------

--commandline=3/vmlinux root=/dev/sda3 HOME=/
--init-partitioned=/dev/sda

#Uncomment this if you want a rescue kernel
--recoverykernel=/vmlinux.original


and here is fstab (it's ok to have it ext3 and not ext2!?) --------------------

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/fstab,v 1.10 2002/11/18 19:39:22 azarah Exp $
#
# noatime turns of atimes for increased performance (atimes normally aren't
# needed; notail increases performance of ReiserFS (at the expense of storage
# efficiency). It's safe to drop the noatime options if you want and to
# switch between notail and tail freely.

# <fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts> <dump/pass>

# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
#/dev/sda3 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/sda3 / ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0
#/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

# glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
# POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink). Adding the following
# line to /etc/fstab should take care of this:
# (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will use almost no
# memory if not populated with files)

tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0



thanks for your help.


- stefan

[schaecsn]

ok, in the meantime I've also realized that one cannot boot from the hard disk with the cd bootimage. a custom kernel did that job.

I cannot bootstrap the system: gcc cannot recompile itself and glibc. I this supposed to happen?

I understand that gentoo/hppa is at an early stage but gcc and glibc exist since a long time for debian/hppa. so I was suprised to see error messages.


thank for reading.

- stefan