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 __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/