[Voyage-linux] Booting from CF card

[Punky Tse]

Hi Chris,

Most probably, the disk device cannot be detected by voyage kernel.  At 
least, we need to know what is your disk device.  Is it IDE or sata?

Regards,
Punky


Chris wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have no problem with that, the issue is getting the info from that 
> computer into this email.
> I have tried:
> dmesg > errortext
>
> I don't think it can be saved to the CF card, as the card cannot be 
> mounted?
>
> cat proc/partitions has no info. It just displays:
> major minor #blocks name
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Josh F wrote:
>> It means exactly what it says:
>>
>> At the shell prompt, type: "dmesg" (without the quotes) (and press 
>> enter)
>> Copy and paste that to the email
>>
>> Then type "cat /proc/partitions" (without the quotes) (and press enter)
>> Copy and paste that to the email
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Chris wrote:
>>> Hard disk is a CF card and I am using voyage-lenny.
>>> Sorry, what do you mean by?
>>> Please post "dmesg" and "cat /proc/partitions".
>>>
>>> Thanks again!
>>>
>>> Kim-man 'Punky' TSE wrote:
>>>> Hi Chris,
>>>>
>>>> No idea, but is it a sata harddisk?  I might be unsupported on 
>>>> voyage.  Please post "dmesg" and "cat /proc/partitions".  BTW what 
>>>> voyage version you are using?
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Punky
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for the help, but still no luck. Volume is called ROOT_FS 
>>>>> and I tried changing kernel parameter to "root=/dev/hda" and 
>>>>> "root=/dev/hda1" no luck.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any other ideas?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Chris
>>>>>
>>>>> Punky Tse wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Check to see if your root fs has ROOT_FS volume label.  If not, 
>>>>>> label the fs with ROOT_FS.  Or change grub to use "root=/dev/hda" 
>>>>>> for kernel parameter.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Punky
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Chris wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am booting for a PC with a CF card Hard drive. I completed 
>>>>>>> installation on my Ubuntu standard PC and it worked fine.
>>>>>>> When it's booting and it comes to:
>>>>>>> Begin:  Waiting for root file system ...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It pauses for about 5 minutes and then says:
>>>>>>> Give up waiting for root device (and displays some common 
>>>>>>> problem solutions)
>>>>>>> Then it drops to:
>>>>>>> (initramfs)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> My Grub settings look like this:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> timeout 5
>>>>>>> default 0
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> title voyage-linux-19Nov08
>>>>>>> root (hd0,0)
>>>>>>> kernel /vmlinuz root=LABEL=ROOT_FS
>>>>>>> initrd /initrd.img
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is this right?
>>>>>>> I haven't changed anything from standard installation.
>>>>>>> I have searched forums, and there is probably something very 
>>>>>>> simple to fix this, but I can't find anything as yet.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks for your help in advance!
>>>>>>> Chris
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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