[Cbe-oss-dev] Still having problems booting

[Adam Clark]

Thats what I thought.  But it must resolve the issue.

Patch nash, and recreate the initrd.

Adam

On Jan 17, 2008 3:56 PM, Bob McGwier <rwmcgwier at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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