Subject: Re: Installation problem with ydl champion server 1.0 (fwd)
From: Roy Koch (rkoch@interaccess.com)
Date: Fri Sep 17 1999 - 15:28:12 MDT
I had a problem similar what I found out was I was creating my swap part ion
first and I needed to create my root part ion first everything worked fine
after that!
Dan Burcaw wrote:
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 13:47:00 +0200
> From: Stephane LAGARDE <lagarde@esrf.fr>
> Subject: Re: Installation problem with ydl champion server 1.0
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem to boot YDL V1.0 on my G3 Tower 300Mhz/190Mo RAM/4Go linux
> ATA hard disk/8Go Macos.
> The installation was a success, it gave me the default root name for BootX
> App "root device= dev/hdb6 ".I saved preferences with "without ramdisk" and
> "ramdisk_size=8912" in kernel argument. ( note my second ATA hard disk is
> in slave mode )
>
> Before installation, the hard disk was HFS formatted (as requested by ydl
> notice), and atfer launching terrasoft installer, fdisk has mounted all
> partitions as following:
> hdb6 swap native
> hdb7 linux native
> hdb8 linux native
> hdb9 linux native
> hdb10 linux native
>
> I noted that five hard drive icons displayed on my MACOS desktop are
> vanished: so I considered that fdisk does its works ! ( And the installer's
> bad sectors checker wasn't found wrong on this disk )
>
> The installer does it job ( 800Mo files installed ), and a window warn me
> to put in BootX App "/dev/hdb6" before booting linux without ramdisk. I
> come back into macOS for launching linux by BootX App without ramdisk and
> with "/dev/hdb6".
>
> And during the boot, the partitions checker found fives linux native blocks
> ( hdb slave )and one HFS block ( hda master )... So the boot recongnize
> linux native "disks".
>
> And an Error message: "VFS kernel panic: can't mount root device fs in
> 00:00" force my G3 to reboot in 180 seconds!!!!! ( that's only different
> message with scsi HD, the boot wrote "VFS mounting root device - ok" and
> follow its job until linux mouse installer & desktop )
>
> So I tried to put "root device: /dev/hdb7" (HFS root): it didn't work...
> Same results with:
> "root device: /dev/hdb6" (HFS swap) with hdb=noautotune and without
> hdb=noautotune
> "root device: /dev/hdb8" (HFS var) with hdb=noautotune and without
> hdb=noautotune
> "root device: /dev/hdb9" (HFS tmp) with hdb=noautotune and without
> hdb=noautotune
> "root device: /dev/hdb10" (HFS home) with hdb=noautotune and without
> hdb=noautotune
>
> Note that it always works with using "ramdisk" option, installation process
> was the same ( with "/dev/sda6" ) for my external SCSI and it's work
> perfectly, but no enough to work with a 540Mo HD !!!! So the problem is
> really a sort of software's ( or parameter's ) conflict with IDE !!! What
> and why ?
>
> I hope you'll find a solution !!! thanks and bye bye !
>
> Stef
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