[Voyage-linux] Booting from CF card

[Punky Tse]

Hi Chris,

I had similar problem when using qemu for booting voyage for testing.

May be you can supply "*all_generic_ide" *in kernel parameter.

See my blog on this:
    http://www.punknix.com/?q=node/118

Regards,
Punky

Kim-man 'Punky' TSE wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> Using the working current build, can you send the following output:
>
> 1. dmesg
> 2. lspci -v
> 3. lsmod
>
> - Punky
>
> Chris wrote:
>> It's a CF card, but is set up to work like an IDE drive.
>> I can get the current build of Voyage working, just not the Lenny 
>> version.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Chris
>>
>> Punky Tse wrote:
>>> 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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