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thwint
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 10:48 am    Post subject: Installing Linux on a PA-Risc Reply with quote

Hi,
I recently started installing a Gentoo-Linux on a HP C110 workstation.
Until now everything went smoothly. I' am on stage 3 now.
I also installed PALO. But now the system can't boot. I always get the following error:
Code:

VFS: cannot open root device "sdb4" or 08.14
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic unable to mount root fs

Here is my palo.conf:
Code:

# Please read /usr/share/doc/palo/palo.conf for more info

--commandline=4/boot/vmlinux root=/dev/sdb4 HOME=/
--init-partitioned=/dev/sdb

Is there a driver missing in the kernel or anything else, which is wrong
configured?
Can anyone help me?

Cheers,
Tom
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 11, 2003 4:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

do u have multiple scsi disks in the machine ?
is the disk with linux on the one with the higher scsi id ?
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2003 1:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think I can help with this one. Your palo.conf should look like this (I think):

Code:

--commandline=4/vmlinux root=/dev/sdb4 HOME=/
--init-partitioned=/dev/sdb


The "4" in "--commandline" means 4th partition, which is probably what you mount as /boot. You don't need what you think of as the path the vmlinux. There is a liitle note in the install manual that says:

Quote:

Important: The path to the kernel is relative to the root of the partition, not to the root of your file tree.


That means you don't need the /boot in that line, assuming you set things up as they describe.

Good luck
Kevin
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