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 Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 12:27 pm Post subject: Update on how my install is going |
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I'm installing 2004.1 (vanilla sources, stage 3) on my Ultra 10. As you can tell, I'm a n00b at both linux and sparc, so I've found these boards a great resource -- not to mention the documentation. I'm very impressed by the responsiveness and friendliness of this community. It's refreshing to go to a linux community and not get dogpiled for asking newbie questions.
Anyway, now that I've stroked your egoes a bit, here's how things are going. At last, I have gotten my installation to come up. Getting out of Silo was a trick, but I played around with my silo.conf until it worked. Now I am having ye olde VFS kernel panic error after I leave the boot prompt. I've scanned the boards using several different search criteria and I have a bunch of ideas to try once I get home revolving around checking menuconfig and make.conf. If anyone has any other ideas for things I can check, let me know.
Thanks again for all your help. I see enlightenment at the end of the tunnel. Or maybe kwin. :D
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| Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 2:17 pm Post subject: Re: Update on how my install is going |
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| novasoy wrote: | I'm installing 2004.1 (vanilla sources, stage 3) on my Ultra 10. As you can tell, I'm a n00b at both linux and sparc, so I've found these boards a great resource -- not to mention the documentation. I'm very impressed by the responsiveness and friendliness of this community. It's refreshing to go to a linux community and not get dogpiled for asking newbie questions.
Anyway, now that I've stroked your egoes a bit, here's how things are going. At last, I have gotten my installation to come up. Getting out of Silo was a trick, but I played around with my silo.conf until it worked. Now I am having ye olde VFS kernel panic error after I leave the boot prompt. I've scanned the boards using several different search criteria and I have a bunch of ideas to try once I get home revolving around checking menuconfig and make.conf. If anyone has any other ideas for things I can check, let me know.
Thanks again for all your help. I see enlightenment at the end of the tunnel. Or maybe kwin.  |
OK, here are some things that should help solve the "kernal panic(VFS): cannot mount root" problem. When I say "include support", I mean built into the kernel, not as a module (CONFIG_FOO=y not CONFIG_FOO=m).
- Did you include the support for your HDD in the kernel? (SCSI/IDE controller, a U10 is IDE with a CMD640 chip IIRC)
- Did you include support for your root filesystem type in the kernel?
- Did you pass the right root=<blah> paramater in silo.conf? Should be something like /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2, or /dev/hda4 (since /dev/hda3 is supposed to be the sun "whole disk" partition) |
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I'll double check the IDE controller issue when I get home. I know for certain that I included the correct file system support in the kernel. I'm just using ext2 & 3. I'm also confident that I passed the correct root parameter in silo.conf. It must be something in the kernel. Thanks for your quick response.
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