On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Michael J Flaherty wrote:
> I have just attempted, at some length to install 8.2 ppc on my 7300. I have > an sonnet ATA 100 card with no devices attached, a nexus 128 video card, and > a belkin usb card. The kernel boots, but panics, unable to mount a file > system. It recognizes all the cards, but not the on-board SCSI (and thus no > CD-ROM or HD), which makes the install impossible. > > Any special bootx arguments that might change this ? Do I need to pull the > ATA 100 card ? > This is install boot? The filesystem at that point is your stage1 ramdisk, and yes, you need BootX parameters: ramdisk size 34000 initial ram disk all.gz as a minimum Once stage1 loads then you proceed to load drivers for SCSI. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/
