Hi again,

--- Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 04:56:56AM -0700, Johan en
> Katrien Dewaele wrote:
> > Hi people,
> > I need your help/advice on this one : I'm a newbie
> in
> > this PPC-Linux thing.
> > 
> > I acquired this old Mac PPC 4400/200 

> > wants to mount root fs I get following error : 
> > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> 03:40.
> > Rebooting in 180 seconds.
> > 
> Thanks for applying all the wisdom available in the
> manual and so on
> before writing! 

yes it's great. ;-)

> But with your current setup, it's apparent that it's
> only the file
> system it's having a problem with; BootX has
> suceessfully launched
> linux, and the partitions are correctly detected. So
> it seems unlikely
> another booting system will help that. One thing to
> try is to just run
> e2fsck /dev/hdb from within the installer shell.

e2fsck-ed the partition : checks out clean.

Changed strategy : put my Linux-disk on ide0 - and
redid install so I could go with quik.

Now I have another problem : 
When boot-floppy boots I get a nice screenoutput with
the penguin on top : kernel detects following (dmesg
output) :

MacOs display is /bandit/ATY,264VT
Using unsupported 640x480 ATY,264VT at 81800480,
depth=8, pitch=640
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
fb0: Open Firmware frame buffer device on
/bandit/ATY,264VT
etc...

When I reboot (during the install, after making
harddisk bootable) I get no(or garbled) screen-output.

I've tried different combinations of c -and vmode with
video=atyfb. With following combinations i get output
but it is scrolling fast/garbled and not usable. :
vmode:6,cmode:8 
      5       8
     14       1 

I can see through the "waves" that the installer tries
to continue the install.
Replaced atyfb with offb and ofonly : no go.

So : I guess I got some wrong parameters in the PRAM
and/or quik.conf.  What combination/frame buffer does
the boot-floppy use ? Can anybody shed a light ?

This is what I've put in PRAM with nvsetenv:

little-endian   false
real-mode       false
auto-boot       true
diag-switch     false
fcode-debug     false
oem-banner      false
oem-logo        false
use-nvramrc     false
real-base       0xffffffff
real-size       0x100000
virt-base       0xffffffff
virt-size       0x100000
load-base       0x600000
pci-probe-list  0xffffffff
screen-#columns 0x64
screen-#rows    0x28
selftest-#megs  0x0
boot-device     ata/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0
boot-file        ata/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2/vmlinux
video=atyfb:vmode:5,cmode:8
diag-device     fd-diags
diag-file
input-device    kbd
output-device   /bandit/ATY,264VT
oem-banner
oem-logo
nvramrc
boot-command    begin ['] boot catch 1000 ms cr again

quik.conf:

default=Linux
timeout=100
root=/dev/hda2
partition=2
image=/vmlinux   
        append="video=atyfb:vmode:5,cmode:8"
        label=Linux
        read-only

TIA
johan

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