On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 12:10:51PM +0100, Simon Vallet wrote: > On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:29:57 +0100 > Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I changed to the boot-device and boot-file to > > > > boot-device ata/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:6 > > boot-file ata/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:6/boot/vmlinux-2.6.8-powerpc > > > > and guess what happened, linux booted!!! > > Always a pleasing moment. You are almost there :-) > > > It didn't get its initrd and therefore failed to mount root, > > > > VFS: Cannot open root device "<NULL>" or unkown-block(0,1) > > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on uknown-block(0,1) > > (0)Rebooting > > This was a common problem with previous, non-initrd enabled quik > versions-- are you sure you've got the latest quik from sarge ?
Yes,
pc236:~# apt-cache policy quik
quik:
Installed: 2.1-3
Candidate: 2.1-3
Version Table:
*** 2.1-3 0
500 http://ftp.sunet.se testing/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
2.0e-0.6 0
500 http://ftp.sunet.se stable/main Packages
pc236:~# quik -V
QUIK version 2.1
pc236:~#
> > but that should be a minor problem.
>
> You may also try with a non-initrd kernel.
Yes, but I would rather stick to the debian stock-kernels, for
convenience.
> > The boot-file argument, should that point to the virtual image name
> > given in /etc/quik.conf or a real file containing the linux kernel?
>
> Actually, it may be both, or sometimes empty, in which case quik should
> boot the 'default' image you defined in quik.conf. AFAIK, this is quite
> machine-dependent : some models do seem to require the full path to the
> image in 'boot-file', others are quite happy with a quik label.
When I did put the full path to the kernel in the boot-file argument,
quik didn't seem to use the definitions in /etc/quik.conf, it didn't
give the kernel the initrd. I guess I could give the
initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-powerpc in boot-file as
boot-device ata/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:6
boot-file ata/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:6/boot/vmlinux-2.6.8-powerpc
initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-powerpc root=/dev/ram
But that didn't work either (Black screen).
(For the moment, I cannot even reproduce the successful boot, might be
related to 'boot-command begin ['] boot catch 1000 ms cr again' or
'boot-command boot')
--
Note that I use Debian version 3.1
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