On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, John G. Cole wrote: > I could not get Mandrake 9.1 PPC to install on my 12" Powerbook G4 > (NVIDIA GeForce4) using any of the gui setups. When I went to > install-text the installation failed with a keyboard ioctl error (early > in the installation). When I installed with install-gui-benh text the > installation seemed to go fine. (Allocated all remaining free space in > the installation ~ 15G) > > When I choose linux on the bootloader and boot linux the boot fails with > errors starting with > > mount: error 6 mounting ext3 flags (null) > well, retrying read-only without any flag > mount: error 6 mounting ext3 > pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 > Remounting devfs at correct place if necessary > Mounted devfs on /dev > Freeing unused kernel memory: 160k init 4k chrp 8k prep > Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel >
/ isn't getting mounted, although it looks like the initrd loaded > I don't know what init= option to pass to the kernel -- by the way at > the top of the screen (above the logo) the kernel is listed as Linux > 2.4.21-0.13mdk -- is it possible that the benh kernel was not installed > somehow? > Quite possible. It doesn't install automatically, and in text mode, even if you explicitily select a package, it doesn't install. If you check the list archives, there are various workarounds. If I understand the situation correctly, rescue won't work either, as the Mandrake kernel doesn't see the hard drive. Archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppc&r=1&w=2 -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
