Updating YDL 3.0

[Eric Dunbar]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:22:03 -0800, Daniel Gimpelevich
<daniel at gimpelevich> wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 10:31:58 -0500:
> 
> > *** I (Eric) found that the RAM disk option was redundant for my
> > OldWorld machine-- it caused my kernel to panic so I disabled it in
> > BootX (make sure you click save to make the change permanent in case
> > you enabled it). I suspect that you use the RAM disk option when
> > you're installing/upgrading YDL 4.0 from CD, not when running the
> > machine (my mistake)?
> 
> When I said the option must now be ON, I was referring only to running the
> machine, not installation. If it causes a kernel panic, you need to supply
> a root= kernel arg.

I'm thinking I shouldn't have touched my system now because there's a
whole slew of dependency problems (I no longer have a _single_ web
browser on the system -- no mozilla, firefox, epiphany or konquerer
(for that matter, KDE is not available but at least GNOME is somewhat
functional... fortunately 95% of the server services seem to be
chugging along nicely, and SMB sharing now shows the right file size
in OS X)). Perhaps it's time to try a full clean install of 4.0 onto
/?

Anyway, "root=" seems to crash the system when I use a RAM disk. For
that matter, I *cannot* get the 2.6.9 .img setting to boot with BootX
1.2.2 (should I be using a different version of BootX?). I've also
tried passing:
rghb quiet init=
init=
init=rghb quiet
=init

I do end up getting slightly different screen outputs depending on the
sequence used but all of them end with the complaint of kernel panic,
and pass init= to the kernel at boot.

Only when I do _NOT_ use the .img/RAM disk will the computer boot
reporting INIT: 2.85. I'm going to give init=2.85 a try.

Why do you say the RAM disk MUST be used?

PS I'm trying to do this on a Rev A Beige G3/266.

Eric.