booting on pegasos

rogerius · n00b Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 30 Location: Hungary

Hello everybody!

I did a stage3 installation recently on my PegasosII. I have placed the kernel image on /dev/hda1, witch is a affs partition. The root (ext3) partition is on /dev/hda4. Now for a test boot, i type 'boot hd:0 kernel-2.6.11 root=/dev/hda4' at the SmartFirmware prompt.
The kernel starts up, but then goes "panic": 'VFS: cannot open root device "hda4" or unknown-block(0,0)'
Cannot mounf fs... What did I do wrong? Is it some kernel config thing? Any idea?

Meanwhile i tried to put the kernel image to the root partition, and used "boot hd:3 kernel... root=/dev/hda4". (Because in SmartFirmware 'ls disk' shows that hda:3 is the 4th partition.) The kernel boots, but says that cannot mount root fs. I checked fstab, but seems ok. (Compare to gentoo handbook)

JoseJX · Retired Dev Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 2774

Most likely you didn't include support for your IDE Chipset. I believe the IDE Chipset used on PegasosII is the CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX option. Make sure it's enabled.

Good luck!
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rogerius · n00b Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 30 Location: Hungary

Wow! Thanks! It was not the via82xx missing, but a nother ata2 'thing' was not included around.
Thank you!