Hi Kristian! I´m thinking in use a sata drive as 3 partition with astlinux system is a cf as usual.
I will have problems? Please advice the best way to do this. Miklos IPFONE TELEFONIA IP Rua Caio Graco 735 São Paulo SP IPBX - +55 11 3488-3800 http://www.ipfone.com.br [EMAIL PROTECTED] Balbus balbum intellegit ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rich Sias" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Discussion of AstLinux - Asterisk on Compact Flash" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 3:25 PM Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] NIC Worked in Dec but not now ? > Somehow my last message didn't go to the list.... > Repy, this morning at 10:48 EST > ============= > Thanks, for the tips. > My IRQs are 0,1,2,8,10,11,14 only with acpi & eth0 sharing 11. Does that > mean apic is involved when there are more than one device on an irq ? > How could I force either one to another unused irq ? > > I d/l the tarball and extracted it all in a windows box (because I have > gobs of HD space there). > 1. I have been in many of the subfolders looking for the boot options > but have not found them yet, got any clues where to look ? > > 2. To make a iso, I assume I'll need a linux system on the HD. I found > many scripts for building (makefile). It has been over 10 years since I > used makefiles, do I simply issue "geniso" at the linux prompt and it > takes it from there and builds the whole thing ? ( I need the generic > 586 model) > > I have tried to get the IDE-CF adapter to be recognized as a hard drive > but so far I am unsuccessful. The mother board wont recognize any CHS I > try to enter. Auto does not work. Autodetect drives does not find it > either. I have instructions on formatting the CF card, but need > recognition first. The install of astlinux needs a drive # with a > partition to drop into. The CF card is PNY 32Mb from a camera. I > deleted the pictures and plugged into the adapter and into the IDE > channel. > > Rich Sias > ========== > Now I have found the kernal boot parameter documentation. I needed to > uncompress the linux2.6.13... item and go to the documentation subfolder. > > Now after experimenting a while, it seems that bzimage needs a "root=" > first before anything else. I even entered "bzimage" by itself and it > was upset that root= was set to <NULL>. I tried "root=", > "root=/tmp/root", and "root=/" similar error messages pop up. It seems I > am not using the root= parameter properly. I just want to enter the > default used by astlinux and try turning off the apic. > > --------- the error lines ------------ > VFS: Cannot open root device "/tmp/root" or unknown-block(0,0) > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on > unknown-block(0,0) > > So what is the default "root device" and what do I type after the root=? > > In the meanwhile I will search for info on how to set the root= boot > option. So far I have found a lot of unrealted info that is not helpful > yet. > > Rich Sias > _______________________________________________ > Astlinux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
