[Voyage-linux] Voyage-0.8.5 not anymore booting with lilo!

[John Coltrane]

Hi Beat,

uuh, lilo, it's about 10 years or so I had used it.

As far as I can remember you have to actualize the list of blocks where
the kernel resides (every time you have tinkered with the kernel). May
be a simple "lilo -v" does this, but you should have a look inside
lilo's manpage.

Why can't you use grub ?

Regarding initrd, if you have a kernel where all device drivers and
other kernel modules mandatory for booting are statically linked in (not
modules !), you do not need a initrd.

cheers, John


On 07/04/2012 08:00 PM, Beat Meier wrote:
> Hello
>
> Voyage 0.8.5 lilo installation does not work anymore.
> Just installed new installation not upgrade of voyage-0.8.5 on alix
> plattform.
> Problem is kernel labeling with space does not work with lilo only
> with grub.
> But even with correcting this root is not found.
> Error is:
>
> [    0.602598] Root-NFS: no NFS server address
> [    0.604197] VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy.
> [    0.605763] VFS: Cannot open root device "LABEL=ROOT_FS" or
> unknown-block(2,0)
> [    0.606481] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are
> the available partitions:
> [    0.607591] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root
> fs on unknown-block(2,0)
> [    0.608394] Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.2.17-voyage #1
> [    0.609432] Call Trace:
> [    0.610839]  [<c12b99db>] panic+0x5a/0x14b
> [    0.612185]  [<c13cbb3e>] mount_block_root+0x15f/0x173
> [    0.612660]  [<c108ffb7>] ? sys_mknod+0x13/0x15
> [    0.614339]  [<c13cb1df>] ? parse_early_options+0x1c/0x1c
> [    0.615571]  [<c13cbc14>] mount_root+0xc2/0xcc
> [    0.616939]  [<c13cc63d>] ? initrd_load+0x2be/0x2c8
> [    0.617604]  [<c13cb1df>] ? parse_early_options+0x1c/0x1c
> [    0.618830]  [<c13cbd5e>] prepare_namespace+0x140/0x171
> [    0.619532]  [<c13cb2d0>] kernel_init+0xf1/0xfd
> [    0.621161]  [<c12bcbf6>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0xd
>
>
> What's the problem?
> How can I use lilo with voyage 0.8.5?
>
> BTW: How can I use only kernel without initrd on wrap/alix? Is this
> not anymore possible without initrd?
>
> Thanks
>
> Beat
>
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