Re: Screen garbled - Was :Re: Kernel panic : VFS : unable to mount root fs

2002-11-03 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 11:20:35AM -0800, Johan en Katrien Dewaele wrote: > Hi, > > > > > I acquired this old Mac PPC 4400/200 ... > One thing I noticed and find very strange: when I zap > the PRAM (alt-cmd P R) I almost immediatly get the > white screen with the arrow and then the Mac searche

Re: Screen garbled - Was :Re: Kernel panic : VFS : unable to mount root fs

2002-11-03 Thread Johan en Katrien Dewaele
Hi, > > > > I acquired this old Mac PPC 4400/200 > > 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=

Re: Screen garbled - Was :Re: Kernel panic : VFS : unable to mount root fs

2002-10-29 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 12:57:51PM -0800, Johan en Katrien Dewaele wrote: > 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

Screen garbled - Was :Re: Kernel panic : VFS : unable to mount root fs

2002-10-29 Thread Johan en Katrien Dewaele
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

Re: Kernel panic : VFS : unable to mount root fs

2002-10-26 Thread Chris Tillman
nux.bin in the > BootX-kernel-map, choose /dev/hdb2 as root-device and > choose Linux as OS. > > So when I now try to boot using this > BootX-configuration: kernel boots, the 2 HD + CD are > detected, partition check goes ok but when the kernel > wants to mount root fs I get fo

Kernel panic : VFS : unable to mount root fs

2002-10-26 Thread Johan en Katrien Dewaele
the kernel wants to mount root fs I get following error : Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:40. Rebooting in 180 seconds. I relaunched the installer with the floppies and here I CAN mount /dev/hdb2 on /target. What am I missing? Are there any other kernel parameters I should add ? I