I've just re-tried with append = " ... root=/dev/sda1"
and I get the same problem: Root-NFS: No NFS server available, giving up. VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy. VFS: Cannot open root device "sda1" or unknown-block(2,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(2,0) Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.35.5 #1 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Martin" <t...@africonnect.co.zm> To: soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com Sent: Thursday, 30 September, 2010 9:36:55 AM Subject: Re: [Soekris] Problem booting Gentoo on a net5510 Kernel config should have been http://files.asymptotic.co.uk/soentoo/kernel_config.config sorry for the error. > LILO config: > root = /dev/sdb1 > append = "... root=/dev/hda1" > Where is your root partition _in reality_? Remove one of confusing root=... > Looking from kernel output (Cannot open root device "hda1") one > suggestion is to change root to /dev/sda1. This is one thing that confuses me. The build instructions from Soentoo suggest to mount the CF on the build box, chroot to it, and run lilo there to install lilo on the partition. The suggested configuration is that the first line (/dev/sdb1) is the CF partition as the build box sees it, the second line (/dev/hda1) is the boot partition as the Soekris sees it. Does this make sense? You imply that putting root= in the image section and in the 'append=' section are equivalent; I thought that one was an instruction to the lilo installer, the other was an instruction passed to the kernel at boot time, though I can't find any docs that confirm this one way or the other. The partition is definitely at dev/sdb1 on my build machine, but I don't know what is appropriate on the Soekris side. I thought I'd tried changing this to /dev/sda1, but I'm not 100% on that and I'll give it another go. Tim _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
