Bootable CD/initrd problem

Mark Glassberg vzeeaxwl at verizon.net
Fri May 25 02:25:04 EST 2007


I am trying to recreate a Slackintosh install cd with a new kernel.  My cd
boots on my B&WG3 with the "c" key held down.  When the kernel tries to make
/dev/ram0 the root device, however, it fails and the kernel panics.

Below is some detail on what I'm doing.  Any assistance would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Mark

I use the following to create the image:
	mkisofs -hfs -part -map ~/Slackintosh/iso/maps -no-desktop \
	-hfs-volid "Yaboot_Boot_CD" -hfs-bless ~/Slackintosh/boot -r \
	-o yaboot-cd.iso ~/Slackintosh

The boot directory has:
	-r--r--r-- 1 root root 10485760 2006-10-06 15:04 initrd
	-r--r--r-- 1 root root     1852 2005-12-31 09:48 ofboot.b
	-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1857228 2007-05-23 15:39 vmlinux
	-r--r--r-- 1 root root   145456 2006-08-19 07:29 yaboot
	-r--r--r-- 1 root root      518 2007-05-24 11:52 yaboot.conf

The map file reads:
	# This mapping is needed to successfully boot and to keep macos
	# from treating everything like a text file (ugly!)
	#
	# EXTN   XLate   CREATOR   TYPE     Comment
	.b              Raw     'UNIX'  'tbxi'  "bootstrap"
	yaboot          Raw     'UNIX'  'boot'  "bootstrap"
	vmlinux         Raw     'UNIX'  'boot'  "kernel"
	.conf           Raw     'UNIX'  'conf'  "bootstrap"
	initrd          Raw     'UNIX'  'root'  "root_image"
	*               Raw     'UNIX'  'UNIX'  "unix"
The ofboot.b file reads:
	<CHRP-BOOT>
	<COMPATIBLE>
	MacRISC MacRISC3 MacRISC4
	</COMPATIBLE>
	<DESCRIPTION>
	GNU/Linux PPC bootloader
	</DESCRIPTION>
	<BOOT-SCRIPT>
	" screen" output
	load-base release-load-area
	boot cd:,\boot\yaboot
	</BOOT-SCRIPT>
	<OS-BADGE-ICONS>
	1010
	000000000000F8FEACF6000000000000
	0000000000F5FFFFFEFEF50000000000
	00000000002BFAFEFAFCF70000000000
	0000000000F65D5857812B0000000000
	0000000000F5350B2F88560000000000
	0000000000F6335708F8FE0000000000
	00000000005600F600F5FD8100000000
	00000000F9F8000000F5FAFFF8000000
	000000008100F5F50000F6FEFE000000
	000000F8F700F500F50000FCFFF70000
	00000088F70000F50000F5FCFF2B0000
	0000002F582A00F5000008ADE02C0000
	00090B0A35A62B0000002D3B350A0000
	000A0A0B0B3BF60000505E0B0A0B0A00
	002E350B0B2F87FAFCF45F0B2E090000
	00000007335FF82BF72B575907000000
	000000000000ACFFFF81000000000000
	000000000081FFFFFFFF810000000000
	0000000000FBFFFFFFFFAC0000000000
	000000000081DFDFDFFFFB0000000000
	000000000081DD5F83FFFD0000000000
	000000000081DDDF5EACFF0000000000
	0000000000FDF981F981FFFF00000000
	00000000FFACF9F9F981FFFFAC000000
	00000000FFF98181F9F981FFFF000000
	000000ACACF981F981F9F9FFFFAC0000
	000000FFACF9F981F9F981FFFFFB0000
	00000083DFFBF981F9F95EFFFFFC0000
	005F5F5FDDFFFBF9F9F983DDDD5F0000
	005F5F5F5FDD81F9F9E7DF5F5F5F5F00
	0083DD5F5F83FFFFFFFFDF5F835F0000
	000000FBDDDFACFBACFBDFDFFB000000
	000000000000FFFFFFFF000000000000
	0000000000FFFFFFFFFFFF0000000000
	0000000000FFFFFFFFFFFF0000000000
	0000000000FFFFFFFFFFFF0000000000
	0000000000FFFFFFFFFFFF0000000000
	0000000000FFFFFFFFFFFF0000000000
	0000000000FFFFFFFFFFFFFF00000000
	00000000FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF000000
	00000000FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF000000
	000000FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF0000
	000000FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF0000
	000000FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF0000
	00FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF0000
	00FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF00
	00FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF0000
	000000FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF000000
	</OS-BADGE-ICONS>
	</CHRP-BOOT>



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