[Voyage-linux] soekris boot failure

[Wayne Lee]

Update

I've noticed a Warning during install time

Warning /proc/partitions does not exist, disk scan bypassed.

The installer continues and I get a Congratulations you should now be
installed

Is this normal, I have not noticed before?


Wayne


On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 23:38 +0100, Wayne Lee wrote:
> HI Guys,
> 
> I'm having trouble getting voyage to boot on a Soekris 4801 box, I've
> have built several of these in the past with no problems until now.
> I'm using the same image as before with the same CF card and installing
> monowall works ok. I'm using a pcmcia to CF adaptor which makes the CF
> card appear as /dev/hdc. I can see that the installation works ok and
> there are no errors until I put the CF in the Soekris and it fails to
> boot with the following error.
> 
> VFS Cannot open root device "301" or unknown-block(3,1)
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> unknown-block(3,1)
> 
> lilo.conf
> 
> boot = /dev/hda
> #compact
> install=text
> map=/boot/map
> vga=normal
> delay=1
> serial=0,9600n8
> default=Linux
> 
> image=/vmlinuz
> #       initrd=/initrd.img
>                 root=/dev/hda1
>         label=Linux
>                 append="console=ttyS0,9600n8 "
>         read-only
> #       restricted
> #       alias=1
> 
> 
> I'm grateful for any help as I'm currently pulling my hair out!
> 
> Wayne
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