[Cbe-oss-dev] Still having problems booting

[Geoff Levand]

On 01/16/2008 09:02 PM, Adam Clark wrote:
> Thats what I thought.  But it must resolve the issue.
> 
> Patch nash, and recreate the initrd.


Please don't top post, it is against the policy of this ML and
more so, it makes it difficult to follow a thread.

There is a bug in nash that it can't recognize /dev/ps3da as
a storage device.  A work-around is to specify root=/dev/ps3daX,
not the partition label, on the kernel command line.


> 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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