On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 10:23:11AM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote: > On Wednesday 12 January 2005 18:03, Sven Luther wrote: > > Alternatively, you can boot into d-i, and then chroot to your system, > > install ssh or another network client, and move /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-powerpc > > to your /tftpboot partition. > > I should have think of that myself! > So this kernel should assume that root is /dev/sda3 (or /dev/scsi/.....) > right ?
There are two things here. Effectively, the kernel assumes root=/dev/sda3 (it is hardcoded to it), but naturally, if no root= argument was given at all, the initrd does know about what the root= partition is, and know how to go to it. i wonder if we should disable root=/dev/sda3 in the -prep kernel, since i believe this is what breaks the without arg d-i loading and means you need to add root=/dev/ram. Let me experiment a bit with this, ok ? > > > > Seems like the scsi driver didn't get loaded or something, > > > > > > Any relationship with the PCI errors ? > > > > > > > can you check if > > > > it is present on the initrd ? mount -t cramfs /boot/initrd.img /mnt or > > > > something such should do. > > > > > > Just now I can't boot, I have to netboot and go reinstall until /target > > > will be available, no ? > > > > Yep. > > > > > And.. /boot/initrd.img is not a device, I don't see how to mount it. > > > > Ah, forgot -o loop, but this is not needed anymore, as we detected your > > problem, you where not using the installed kernel, but the debian-installer > > one, and thus altough it is the same kernel, using the wrong initrd. > > I'll do it however, for my knowledge. Ok. Friendly, Sven Luther
