On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 05:47:51PM -0500, Hank Leininger wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Alessandro Martins wrote:
>
> > Ok, I try linux <ENTER>, linux root=/dev/ram... the kernel loads, but I get this message:
> >
> > You didn't specify the type of your ufs filesystem
> >
> > mount -t ufs -o ufstype=sun|...
> >
> > >>> WARNING <<< Wrong ufstype may corrupt your filesystem, default is ufstype=old
> > ufs_type=old is supported read-only
> > ufs_read_super: bad magic number
> >
> > Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00
> > Press L1-A to return to the boot prom
>
> That's exactly what I was talking about when I said "it doesn't seem
> like the initrd is recognized as a gzip'ed image, so the kernel attempts
> to mount it as FAT which failes, and then UFS which fails..." It may be
> that the initrd isn't being recognized at all, and mounting an empty
> ramdisk is being attempted?
>
> I dunno. But, at least I'm not crazy ;)
Argh... back to the drawing board. I simply don't understand why this is
happening. The color.gz and serial.gz root images are 5MB compressed ext2
filesystems. I will look through everything and try to figure out what's
up. Both of you are having this happen on SPARCstation 10 systems, right?
If you find any more details, please let me know
--
David Cantrell | david@slackware.com
KG6CII | Slackware Linux Project
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