I'm trying to boot kernel-image-2.6.6-powerpc, version 2.6.6-2, on a Blue&White G3. It crashes during the initrd, with pivot_root complaining, "No such file or directory," and subsequent complaints about failing to open /dev/console and a failure of init.
Looking at the hardware detection, I got: ide0 --> Apple Heathrow ATA (notices IRQ 13) hda --> Matshita CR-589 (CDROM) But, when I boot with 2.4, I get ide0 --> CMD646 (notices IRQ 26) ide1 --> CMD646 hda --> Quantum Fireball EX12.7A ide2 --> Apple Heathrow ATA (notices IRQ 13) hde --> Matshita CR-589 I added 'cmd64x' to /etc/mkinitrd/modules, rebuilt the initrd for 2.6.6, and reooted. Now I get ide0 --> Apple Heathrow ATA (notices IRQ 13) hda --> Matshita CR-589 ide1 --> CMD646 (notices IRQ 26) ide2 --> CMD646 hdc --> Quantum Fireball EX12.7A So, if I boot 2.6.6 with root=/dev/hdcN, then everything works fine (except, of course, that fstab is broken). Why doesn't it find the CMD646 automatically? Why do the drives get numbered in a different order? Thanks for your time, Tim
