On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 11:22:35AM +0200, Patrik Nyman wrote: > Hi all. > > I have a Mac beige G3 desktop, 64MB RAM, 20GB IDE hard drive. > There's one root partition of 4.2GB at /dev/hda8, and another equally large > linux partition at /dev/hda9, and 500MB of swap at /dev/hda10. The rest is > for Mac OS. > The installation of the base system of Woody ran smoothly, > except I skipped the last item, "Make system bootable", > since I thought I'd use BootX rather than quik. > I installed BootX according to the instructions in the installation manual: > put a folder "Linux Kernels" in the MacOS system folder, with linux.bin and > ramdisk.image.gz in it. I told BootX that the root is in /dev/hda8. > But, on booting I get: > > request_module[block-major.3]: Root fs not mounted. > VFS: cannot open root device 03:08. > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:08. > > I have not applied the firmware patch mentioned in the manual. I'm under the > inpression that you only need this if you're gona use quik. Correct? > > I am a newbie to all of this, so any help will be greatly appreciated.
So, when you say you told BootX, I assume you didn't use the built-in BootX voice interface :-) - you un-checked the root ramdisk checkbox and added "root=/dev/hda8" to the boot arguments box, right? Just wanted to check that we were on the same page. Other than that, all I can suggest is re-booting the installation system, executing a shell, and using e2fsck in the installer to check the filesystem integrity on /dev/hda8. Although, it looks like it's not finding the partition at all. -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual> | | debian-imac: <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | To Have, Give All to All (ACIM) | *----------------------------------------------------------------*
