I'm trying to boot Bering 1.0RC2 from either /dev/hda1 or /dev/hda2 on a hard drive or flash device. I'm currently testing with a hard drive.
When I try to boot from either /dev/hda1 or /dev/hda2, the init script complains that it can't find the boot device or install the packages.
Here are the relevant the boot messages while booting from /dev/hda1 (VERBOSE and DEBUG are enabled):
...
Mounting a 6MB TMPFS filesystem...
umount: /proc/mounts: No such file or directory
Pivoting...
Generating default dirs...
Generating /tmp & /var/log files ...
Generating /dev...
mount: Mounting /dev/hda1 on /var/lib/lrpkg/mnt failed: Device not configured
mount: Mounting /dev/hda1 on /var/lib/lrpkg/mnt failed: Device not configured
mount: Mounting /dev/hda1 on /var/lib/lrpkg/mnt failed: Device not configured
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
...
LINUXRC: Could not mount the boot device. Can't install packages
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
Here is the syslinux.cfg file for /dev/hda1:
display syslinux.dpy
timeout 0
default linux initrd=initrd.lrp init=/linuxrc root=/dev/ram0 boot=/dev/hda1:msdos PKGPATH=/dev/hda1 LRP=root,etc,local,modules,pump,keyboard,shorwall,dnscache,weblet
How do I get Bering to boot from /dev/hda1 or /dev/hda2?
Regards,
Richard
> Have you tried pointing to a regular syslinux'ed partition like you were
> booting do or windows? That might work. Format the partition with
> mkdosfs, mount it, copy the bering files to it, unmount it, run syslinux
> on it, then point to it with lilo like it was trying to boot windows.
>
> Let me know if that works.
>
> Thanks,
> Chad
