'ello, On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 20:07, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Make sure you are actually using the initrd. Check your yaboot.conf > file, run ybin to install it where yaboot can find it, check again to > see whether it's what you expect.
It was the yaboot.conf file -- I still had the initrd line commented out. When I un-commented it, the Debian kernel booted fine (as it needs an initrd). I've just compiled my own kernel _without_ initrd support and I am still getting this same problem of it not being able to find the IDE device. OK, I thought, something it needs must be compiled as a module, which the kernel can't find if it doesn't have an initrd. This isn't a problem; I can re-configure and recompile and sort it out. The problem is that, again, I can't boot the machine. I have tried to boot the old Debian kernel from yaboot: /boot/vmlinux.old initrd=/boot/initrd.old but whatever I do (and I've tried /boot/vmlinux-2.6.8-powerpc, /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-powerpc -- which is what the ls command in d-i tells me is there) it still doesn't work -- it can't seem to find the initrd. To me it looks like yaboot is not loading the initrd / the kernel is not receiving the initrd parameter for some reason. Am I using the wrong syntax for it? I also tried this at the yaboot prompt: hd:2,/boot/vmlinux-2.6.8-powerpc root=/dev/discs/disc0/part2 initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-powerpc which is what the Debian kernel would have wanted because it uses DevFS (so does mine ATM, too, I have only changed the initrd option). It seems to me that I should be able to boot the system from yaboot and not need to keep booting from the d-i CD to rescue the system by editing yaboot.conf and re-running ybin. It takes me a _very_ long time to get into d-i, mount the disc and so on because I have to use my magnifier to read all the text due to it being so small :-). I feel I must have got something wrong at the yaboot prompt because I don't see how it could have a problem with me specifying things manually -- but whatever I try I can't make it see that initrd image from the Debian kernel. > There are larger console fonts, such as Sparc 12x22. Thanks, yes, I was hoping to try them at some point. I don't suppose you know the kernel option to disable the fb device, do you? Then at least I might be able to read more of what the Debian kernels have to say and the console :-). bye just now, -- Matthew T. Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
