From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18130 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2004 23:07:08 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 29 Nov 2004 23:07:08 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1CYubs-0004u6-6P for arch-gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 23:07:08 +0000 Received: (qmail 20727 invoked by uid 89); 29 Nov 2004 23:07:04 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-mips-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail Reply-To: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-mips@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 689 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2004 23:07:03 +0000 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: andy set sender to afinley@gis.umn.edu using -f From: Andrew Finley Reply-To: afinley@gis.umn.edu To: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <41ABA500.3010506@gentoo.org> References: <1101332151.12250.17.camel@populus> <41A5307E.3060507@gentoo.org> <1101660743.27092.2.camel@populus> <41AA3D7F.1030504@gentoo.org> <1101763820.18017.5.camel@populus> <41AB98BD.6030203@vt.edu> <1101767520.18017.63.camel@populus> <41ABA500.3010506@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: umn Message-Id: <1101769623.18017.104.camel@populus> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 29 Nov 2004 17:07:03 -0600 Subject: Re: [gentoo-mips] arcboot problem R5000 o2 X-Archives-Salt: da200312-ac35-4e50-8f73-5a4c0ed2055a X-Archives-Hash: 5ed79c647e22fc69e3e18f81d8dd3a8d Your Good Steve, I did forget to mount boot the last time. And got it to boot, part way. I got a "kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to the kernel" Sorry to keep bugging you, but I'm not sure where to find help (google only works so far) :-) andy On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 16:38, Stephen P. Becker wrote: > Andrew Finley wrote: > > Hi Steve, > > Ok I moved the kernel and /etc/arcboot.conf to my /boot (and as noted in > > the man page, made a link from boot to boot) and changed my arcboot.conf > > to reflect the changes. > > > > Now in the prom I resetenv so that: > > SystemPartition = pci(0)scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(8) > > > > then ran arcboot - then it says it can't find the arcboot.conf or an > > ext2fs. Then it says to adjust OSLoadPartition to > > pci(0)scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(2) Which I tried with no success > > I also tried pci(0)scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1) with no success. > > My boot partition is on sda1, root is sda3, and swap is sda2. > > > > any ideas what I'm doing dumb? > > > > You shouldn't *have* to adjust OSLoadPartition actually. Arcboot > auto-detects that. You did mount /dev/sda1 on /boot *before* you > copied the config file and made the symlink didn't you? > > In any case, I have the same configuration you do in terms of partition > layout (with the exception of sdb1 mounted on /usr), and it WorksForMe(TM). > > Steve > > -- > gentoo-mips@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-mips@gentoo.org mailing list