Hi Bob! On 2/19/21 7:47 AM, Bob McGowan wrote: > The kernel prints a bunch of normal type lines, then panics because it can't > find the root > device. It also reports a list of partitions it can find. The only disks > are the ram disk > (partitions 0-15) and sr0. > > This looks like it is missing drivers for the SCSI cards, but the CD kernel > had no problems > and I thought the kernel placed on sda3 would have them also. That kernel is > what I copied > to the 9G disk.
You're missing the initrd. You're just providing a kernel and the root device, but the drivers for the root device are stored in the initrd. The initrd is stored next to the kernel, so you just need to edit your yaboot.conf to have the initrd variable point to the correct name. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
