Subject: WORKS!!!
From: Joshua Gitlin (jnet@brandeis.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 11 2000 - 15:05:37 MDT
Chris,
THANKS!!! I got linux booted, and it worked! Well, actually I
got a few page faults, "Unable to handle kernel paging request"...
any thoughts anyone? I also have no ethernet support :(, but it
boots!!! Joe, did you ever get ethernet working?
-Josh
>Joshua Gitlin wrote:
>
>> Hey everyone. Sorry to be a pest, but I am still stuck. I have
>> installed CS 1.2.1... I have a disk with a small HFS partition, and
>> three linux partitions. The install worked properly. I have a kernel
>> on the small HFS partition, the same kernel that came with the
>> install CD. Yaboot points to that kernel. However I can't boot Linux
>> -- I see the penguin and all of the boot-messages, but the Kernel
>> panics because it can't mout /root... or something. I'm going to
>> reboot again and try it. Anyone have any ideas??? Thanks...
>>
>> -Josh
>
>here is what it looks like unser redhat i.e /etc/lilo.conf:
>
>[root@dwarf_1 root]# cat /etc/lilo.conf
>boot=/dev/hda
>map=/boot/map
>install=/boot/boot.b
>prompt
>timeout=50
>linear
>default=linux
>
>image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17-cmd-tuxtop
> label=linux
> read-only
> root=/dev/hda6 <--------- this is pointing to the root
>partition.
>
>image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-3
> label=old
> read-only
> root=/dev/hda6
>[root@dwarf_1 root]#
>
>i would assume YD1.2 like most all linux dostro's needs a pointer
>reference. so to verify the / partition do: df -h
>
>[root@dwarf_1 /root]# df -h
>Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>/dev/hda6 16G 2.4G 13G 15% / <-------------- see it
>here
>/dev/hda1 21M 4.0M 16M 20% /boot
>[root@dwarf_1 /root]#
>
>make sure its pointing to / not /root.
>
>good luck,
>
>Christopher M Downs
>cdowns@skillsoft.com
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>Network Administrator
> Skillsoft Corporation
>http://ww.skillsoft.com
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