Re: [cobalt-users] Raq4 - Kernel 2.4 Upgrade Woes

["E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

JT> Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 21:53:43 -0500 (CDT)
JT> From: Josh Trutwin


JT> request_module[block-major-3]: Root fs not mounted).  Seems
JT> odd, the ROM kernel wasn't changed, it should still have IDE
JT> drivers...

Different CHS translations?  Can you supply us with the disk
geometry of the drive you installed, as it was detected by the
host machine?


JT> 1.) Does it matter that I'm using an Athlon K6 to build this?

Uh, Athlon != K6.  Athlon is the successor to K6.


JT> I don't have a good grasp on the architecture of the Raq4,
JT> but I read in one of the instructions to use a spare PIII.
JT> Will an Athlon work?  (it's i386 right?)  If not, will a PIV
JT> work, no PIII sitting around....

Compile for Pentium or K6 architecture.  Do not use instructions
introduced in PII/PIII/P4/Athlon, such as CMOVxx.  If you stick
with "-march=pentium" or "-march=k6" or earlier, you'll be fine.


JT> 3.) Does it matter where in the hard drive /dev/hda1 is?
JT> Somewhere I think I remember reading to use the last
JT> cylinders of the hard drive.  I used the beginning of the
JT> hard drive during my partitioning.

Until IDE drivers are loaded, one is confined to the first 1024
cylinders.  Having a kernel in ROM helps. ;-)


JT> FYI, I have a copy of the output from attempting to boot at
JT> http://trutwins.homeip.net/raq4.txt that might be helpful.

Hmmmm.  "Unable to mount root fs on 03:01", which is /dev/hda1.


Eddy
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