Subject: Re: installing onto slave IDE drive
From: Hollis R Blanchard (hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Sat Nov 18 2000 - 13:14:46 MST
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Jim Potter wrote:
> > After installation you will need to modify your yaboot.conf to change
> > "hd:" to "ultra1:".
>
> I've tried that (booting from IDE slave drive, using 'ultra1:' instead of 'hd:')
> and the kernel failed on bootup, saying that it could not mount root (...as I
> recall. It's been a little while). I'd like to boot from slave, too.
I'm sorry, I wasn't thinking straight. You would need to use "ultra1" if
you had yaboot on the slave drive; if it's on your master drive then
ignore me. :) (ultra1 is an Open Firmware name; it doesn't mean anything
to the Linux kernel.)
The message you described is from the kernel after it's booted and can't
find the partition you want to boot from. This could be because you
specified an incorrect "root =" line in your yaboot.conf; remove that line
completely and the kernel should autodetect it.
In the boot messages you will see a partition check that lists all
available partitions. If you do not specify "root=" the kernel will pick
one and print which one it's using here.
-Hollis
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