On Sun, 5 May 2002, Thomas Geenen wrote:
> oke managed to boot in rescue thanks to > http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1432&lang=en > transferring the initrd was no use. > initrd contends: > #!/bin/nash > > echo "Loading sd_mod module" > insmod /lib/sd_mod.o > echo "Loading sym53c8xx module" > insmod /lib/sym53c8xx.o > echo "Loading mesh module" > insmod /lib/mesh.o > echo Mounting /proc filesystem > mount -t proc /proc /proc > echo Creating root device > mkrootdev /dev/root > echo 0x0100 > /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev > umount /proc > echo Mounting root filesystem with flags noatime > mount --ro -t ext2 /dev/root /sysroot noatime > pivot_root /sysroot /sysroot/initrd > echo Remounting devfs at correct place if necessary > handledevfs > > contents of /etc/modules.conf > probeall scsi_hostaddapter sym53c8xx mesh > alias sound-slot-0 dmasound_pmac > alias eth0 tulip > alias eth1 bmac > > i was unable to run mkinitrd since /proc is empty > > the scsi adapter that the installer finds is symbios|53c875 > hope this is of ay use > This definitely explains why the one I supplied doesn't work. It only has mesh, mac53c94. So you still see panic, no init? Do you see the modules load? One other thought, are you passing either devfs=mount or devfs=nomount in the kernel arguments? Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3
