dylan wrote: > on 04.9.11 10:17 AM, Sebastiaan Molenaar at [EMAIL PROTECTED] was > reported to have writen: > >> Hi all, >> >> This is starting to drive me crazy by now so I hope someone has got an >> answer. >> I'm trying to install Debian on my Powerbook G3 (wallstreet) >> Base install seems to work allright, but I can't get the system booted. >> >> quik doesn't seem to work, and when I try bootx I get the following >> message: >> >> VFS: Cannot open root device "hda7" or unknown-block(0,0) >> Please append a correct "root=" boot option >> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) >> >> I'm using BootX v1.2.2 (hoping to use quik later on so I can do away >> with my mac partition) >> >> If I drop to shell during install I see that hda7 is mounted as: >> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 >> >> When I try to put that in the box in BootX I get the same error message >> (obviously with "hda7" replaced with "/dev/ide......") >> >> Any help would be greatly appriciated. >> >> Greetz, >> Seb. >> > > FWIT, I am having the exact same problem. I can boot into the new system > with the 2.4 series kernel without any problems using BootX... however > attempting to boot with a 2.6 series kernel results in the same error that > Sebastian is having... > > ....? > > Dylan > > Hi !
I dont use BootX. But make sure you have copied the initrd and the vmlinux to the macos folders and slected the initrd as ramdisk? Bye Chris.