On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 11:34:26AM -0800, Bill Swingle wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 05:02:24PM -0800, David Cantrell wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 02:30:12PM -0800, Matt Snow wrote:
> > > ok, I loaded the CD onto my other ipx(with a power up chip,80mhz) and
> > > that machine has a living PROM chip, so i am assuming that was the cause
> > > on the other ipx for failing on loading the ramdisk.
> > > so, this time it loaded the kernel, found my scsi disk, and sony/sun
> > > cdrom.
> > > but this was the error i ran into..
> > >
> > > RAMDISK:compressed image found at block 0
> > > VFS: mounted root(ext2 filesystem).
> > > Warning: unable to open an initial console.
> > >
> > > btw, I love the tux kernel picture. =)
> > > he has a sun on his belly.
> >
> > The initial console error could be couple things. Either it didn't
> > properly create the RAM disk to dump the root filesystem into. Reboot
> > with this command at the OpenBoot "ok" prompt:
> >
> > boot cdrom root=/dev/ram ramdisk_size=5120k"
> >
> > The other problem may be that you don't have enough good RAM in the
> > system. I usually say 8 for the kernel to roam around in. The RAM disk
> > needs 5 meg (compared to 4 on the Intel version).
>
> Ok, I finally drug my U5 into work to start testing this. I'm getting
> the same problem with the "Warning: unable to open an initial console"
> error.
>
> David, I tried your suggested fix above and SILO complains about:
>
> Your imagename 'root=dev/ram' and arguements 'ramdisk_size=5120k' have
> either wrong syntax of describe a label which is not present in
> silo.conf
>
> Any hints? :)
>
Yeah, I need to rebuilt color.gz. The /dev tree got left out for some
reason. New one will be uploaded tonight.
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David Cantrell | david@slackware.com
KG6CII | Slackware Linux Project
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