Beige G3 can't find root after install

[Gavin Hemphill]

This is what initrd's are for :-).  Make sure you are building the 
sym53c8xx as a module and then make sure you make an initrd after you 
build a kernel and do the make modules_install.  The initrd goes in /boot.
	G++

Duane Foster wrote:

> Greetings all,
> 
> Am working with a stock Beige G3 300Mhz,  196M ram,  UW SCSI 4G MacOS8.1 and 9G for YDL.
> The SCSI card is an ATTO PSC.  This card is not mentioned specifically in any of YDL's website or any list traffic.  But I was able to run the installation kernel and do a complete install (YDL3.01) without a hitch.
> Back to BootX, turned off Ramdisk, set the kernel to the regular (non-boot) version, and set the root partition to sdb6.
> 
> Upon restarting Linux there is a kernel panic:
> VFS: Cannot open root device "sdb6" or 00:00
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00
> 
> I found this explanation in the mail list:
> 
>>Your install kernel (8dBOOT) has enough UW support built in. Your boot kernel (8d) does not.
> 
> This seemed consistent with my situation, so I have tried two different BenH kernels  (dev-2.4.23-pre5  and powermac-ow-scsi-...pre5) without any difference.
> 
> I noticed /sbin/modprobe sym53c8xx was invoked on the install kernel; I don't see this on the regular kernel.  Again this seems consistent with the explanation mentioned previously.
> 
> I copied the BenH kernels into the system/linux_kernels folder and invoked them through BootX;  the installation instruction at PPCkernels.org states that the kernel and system.map needs to be copied to the linux partition.   Does anyone know if a lack of system.map would affect mounting root?
> 
> Any other suggestions or ideas would be appreciated
> 
> duane foster
> 
> 
> 
> 
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