Subject: Re: installing onto slave IDE drive
From: Jim Potter (jrp@wvi.com)
Date: Tue Nov 21 2000 - 11:39:14 MST
Yes, and I think I've been through all of the yaboot.conf and bootscript
issues; the kernel loads but panics when it cannot mount the root fs:
request_module[block-major-8]: Root fs not mounted
VFS: Cannot open root device 08:01
Hey, do I need to screw around with /etc/fstab (etc) before shutting down and
reconfiguring the drive drom master to slave? Does the fstab file get used
on shutdown, and won't it make for tricky booting if done wrong?
> On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Jim Potter wrote:
>
> > I don't have a "root = " line in my yaboot.conf file; in fact, I've
> > never seen the entries in the yaboot.conf file work for me -- and I
> > always manually type things in -- in OF: "boot ultra1:,\\yaboot" and in
> > yaboot: "ultra1:,\\vmlinux".
>
> It may be easier for you to keep yaboot, yaboot.conf, and the bootscript
> on your master drive. If you do that, you will need to only modify
> yaboot.conf.
>
> If you keep them all on your slave drive, you will need to modify both
> your yaboot.conf and the bootscript.
>
> To modify your bootscript
> (http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/HOWTO/bootscript),
> change "hd:,\\yaboot" to "ultra1:,\\yaboot".
>
> To modify your yaboot.conf
> (http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/HOWTO/yaboot.conf),
> change all instances of "hd:" to "ultra1:".
>
> Then you can use the bootscript and yaboot.conf as normal users do.
>
> > It's a pain, and automating it would be nice. Also being able to boot
> > from a slave drive would be nice, so that I can leave my MacOSX drive in
> > there, too; they ALSO need to be on the master drive, and changing
> > drives out makes for a limited drive life.
>
> It's possible to boot Linux from your slave device. As you've discovered,
> it is significantly easier to do it from a master drive. I think only you
> can decide how much your time and frustration is worth. :)
>
> -Hollis
-- Sincerely,Jim Potter 45th Parallel Processing jrp@wvi.com
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