Linux install kernel panic

[dwc at davewc.mv.com (dwc)]

Tell your friend to try this, it should work.
At the ramdisk prompt type:  mount root=/dev/fd0
then insert the root disk when prompted....
that should be it...

Good luck!


On Wed, 29 Nov 1995 13:35:28 -0500, you wrote:

>A friend of mine (really!) is installing Linux onto his PC. He added a second 850MB drive and wants to put Linux onto a partition of that drive.
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>Using Slackware 2.3, he created a bootdisk and rootdisk diskettes by using RAWRITE. When he boots from the bootdisk, it boots for a while, then asks for a ramdisk (not a rootdisk). This is weird. If he skips over that by hitting enter, it asks for the rootdisk. When that is inserted, he gets a kernel panic saying it can't mount the root filesystem.
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>When I went did an install a while ago, I don't remember getting the prompt for a ramdisk, although I had to go thru some loops to handle EIDE.
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>We tried entering a bootparm saying:
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>ramdisk hdb=1654,16,63
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>but it still prompted for the ramdisk.
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>
>I'm wondering if it's his GSI EIDE disk controller, which controls his floppy, both HDD's, serial ports, etc. Any known problems with this controller? I browsed a slew of HOW-TO's and c.o.l.setup, but found nothing related to this card.
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>Any help?
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>Thanks.
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>
>
>Dan Murphy                 murph at vmark.com
>Vmark Software             74260.3322 at compuserve.com
>Westboro, MA
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