On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 10:33:28PM -0500, Hank Leininger wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, David Cantrell wrote:
>
> > > > 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 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?
>
> For me, it happens on a ss5, ss4, ss10, and ss20. :(
Aww crap.
> Netbooting works fine, but booting the cdrom no workie.
>
> Since a)there's newer images since the last time I tried, and b)I now
> have at least one successfully installed system (an ss5, got a kernel
> netbooted, then plopped the CD into a local drive 'cuz the netbooted
> kernel didn't have lance support built in... doh) to compare against,
> I'll try again soon and dig through source to diagnose.
Now those I know I enabled. Might want to grab the latest image and make
sure, but I enabled all the network drivers in the tftp kernels...for
obvious reasons.
> Is there a chance that there's a cdrom-drive incompatability? Old UNIX
> hardware was all kinds of picky about what CDROM drives they'd boot from
> (in fairness, at least they *could* boot from CD before the late 90's...
> :) I'd been assuming that if the PROM was able to load SILO and the
> kernel from CD, then that was it, things were successful. But is there
> a chance of some odd block-boundary nonsense causing the initrd loading
> to fail even after the kernel has been successfully loaded?
>
> Grasp for straws much...?
That could be it, but once SILO has loaded, the control is passed off to
it. It reads the ISO9660 filesystem, loads and boots the kernel and
passes it the information for the compressed ramdisk.
Just for shits and giggles, did you verify the md5sum of the ISO with the
one in the CHECKSUMS.md5 file?
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David Cantrell | david@slackware.com
KG6CII | Slackware Linux Project
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