Adam C Powell IV wrote:
>
> Aaron Davies wrote:
>
> > Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> > >
> > > When you boot, does the "Partition check" for that drive list your
> > > partition?
> > > Later, does it say something like "Mounting root partition read-only"?
> > > Does it
> > > add the swap partition successfully?
> >
> > OK, I don't know how to pause the boot process, so I can only give you
> > the last screen before the crash. It looks at my IDE devices, the
> > floppy, and the SCSI bus, then this follows:
> >
> > Partition check:
> > sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sda5 sda6 (root on 5)
> > hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 hda5 hda6
> > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> > Freeing unused kernel memory: 180k init 32k prep
> > Kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
> > Rebooting in 180 seconds..
>
> Looks good to me.
>
> > I don't see anything about adding the swap partition.
>
> Okay, that must be done after init is started. (Silly me to think it came
> before.)
>
> > > When you boot with the ramdisk, you should be able to mount your existing
> > > Linux
> > > partition(s). Then you can use alt-F2 to switch to a different console
> > > and open
> > > a shell (and switch back to the install console with alt-F1). "df" will
> > > verify
> > > that the partitions are where you say they are (your installed root
> > > partition
> > > should be mounted as /target/).
> >
> > This works fine, /dev/sda5 is /target.
> >
> > > Then do "ls target/sbin" and you should see init. It shouldn't be
> > > necessary to
> > > pass an "init=" parameter.
> >
> > This works too, /target/sbin/init is there.
>
> Hmm... AFAIK, the installed kernel is the same as the one on the rescue
> floppy, so
> if the rescue floppy sees /dev/sda5 then the installed kernel should too.
>
> The only other thing I can think of is a missing or incorrect /dev entry, but
> this
> should give an error earlier, while trying to mount root readonly. Just to
> make
> sure, it might be worth booting in the rescue floppy, mounting existing
> partition(s),
> and doing "ls -l /target/dev/sda5". Please report the result to the list, I
> don't
> know what the major/minor numbers should be (I'm away from my mac for a
> couple of
> weeks).
OK, I get the following:
brw-rw---- 1 root 8, 5 Jul 20 01:06 /target/dev/sda5
> What model powermac is this again?
Beige G3/300.
--
__ __
/ ) / )
/--/ __. __ ________ / / __. , __o _ _
/ (_(_/|_/ (_(_) / / <_ /__/_(_/|_\/ <__</_/_)_
