[Cbe-oss-dev] Still having problems booting

[Bob McGwier]

I assure you my problem has absolutely nothing to do with nash if the 
problem it causes is dealing with labels.  I am not using labels.  I am 
pointing the yaboot configuration,  the mkinitrd commands, mkzimage, etc at

/dev/ps3da1

as the root and I still get /dev/root not found on boot.  The error 
kernel boot messages you give in the bugzilla have nothing to do with 
the /dev/root problem so far as I can tell because the PS3's (all four 
of them) I am attempting to get running all fail in exactly the same 
manner with whatever mistakes I am making in the kernel build.

This really shouldn't be this hard.  I would install PPC Fedora 8 from 
scratch if I could.  The DVD boot fails before I ever get to give a 
single input when I attempt to use the kexec command to boot into anaconda.

Bob



Adam Clark wrote:
> I had to patch nash
>
> I downloaded the srpm using yumdownloader --source nash
>
> got the tarball out of there, applied the included patches and the
> patch from here
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389331
>
> make; make install
>
> then make install the kernel.
>
> Regards
>
> Adam
>
> On Jan 17, 2008 4:51 AM, Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand at am.sony.com> wrote:
>   
>> Edward Strong wrote:
>>     
>>>> The kernel starts but then the error message is
>>>>
>>>> cannot find /dev/root
>>>>
>>>> followed by
>>>>
>>>> cannot find /dev
>>>>
>>>> I have modified the kernel command line argument in yaboot and modified
>>>> fstab in just about every way I can imagine with no joy.
>>>>         
>>> Did you ever find a proper solution to this? Mine started working again
>>> out of the blue after doing a pull on Geoff's kernel last week, which is
>>> strange since I'm positive no configuration changes were made.
>>>       
>> As was said in another post, I think your problem is your build or install
>> method, not the kernel sources.
>>
>> One difference a new checkout gives you is that the modules are installed
>> to a differnt directory.
>>
>> -Geoff
>>
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