On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Ben Martin wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have installed MDK 9,1 on my PPC 9600.
> It has a scsi 4GB HD and scsi CD-ROM with PCI ATA-100 control which has
> a 20GB IDE HD attached.
> 
> I have installed the root '/' on the scsi hd with a 3GB partition
> '/dev/sda7'.  There is a 1GB partition for mac os 9.
> The 20GB ide hd has been setup for '/home'
> 
> I have setup BootX with the following settings:
> 
> Kernel: vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk
> ramdisk: initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img
> arguments: root=/dev/sda7 devfs=mount
> 
> When MKD boots, the scsi drives are found with the mesh driver.  However
> the Kernel ends in a panic.
> Here is the output:
> 
> Mounting /proc filesystem
> Creating root device
> Mounting root filesystem with flags noatime
> mount: error 6 mounting ext3 flags noatime
> well, Retrying without the option flags
> mount: error 6 mounting ext3
> well, Retrying read-only without the option flags
> 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.
>       <0>Rebooting in 180 seconds..
> 

Is / ext3?  You should be using the appropriate initrd for the root 
filesystem.  I believe I shipped one for each filesystem.  Don't have the 
CD handy to check atm.

-- 
Stew Benedict

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MandrakeSoft


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