Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Re: New install - Unable to get my ppc Mac Mini to boot the root partition

2010-09-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Joe Fox wrote: >> Mark, >> >> Did you compile in your ext2/ext3 support as a module or statically into the >> kernel?  If you compiled them as modules, then you need to create an inirtrd >> that includes the dr

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Re: New install - Unable to get my ppc Mac Mini to boot the root partition

2010-09-02 Thread Enlightened User
Could the root device now be referred to as /dev/sda4 (SCSI Disk support) with the kernel now loading? You should be able to pass the root device to the kernel at boot time (root=/dev/sda4). If you are able to get past the root filesystem check (the disk is referred to as sda instead of hda),