[okl4-developer] okl4 off the disk

[Ashish Bijlani]

thanks for the quick response. I'm using x86 -32 bit platform. This
approach doesn't work though. It says kernel panic - VFS couldn't
mount rootfs on sda5. Please specify correct root option.

Thanks,
Ashish

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Geoffrey Lee <glee at ok-labs.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 10:13:19AM -0400, Ashish Bijlani wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> I'm using grub, which says:
>>
>> root(hd0,4)
>> kernel=/boot/image.elf
>>
>> The Sconscript file at line 104 says:
>>
>> "vmlinux", "root=/dev/sda5 console=tty0"
>
> This should work, what chipset do you have?
>
>        -gl
>
>>
>> Please lemme know, in case I'm missing something.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ashish
>>
>> On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Josh Matthews <jmatthews at ok-labs.com> wrote:
>> > Hi Ashish,
>> >
>> > On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 7:05 AM, Ashish Bijlani <ashish.bijlani at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> How do I disable ramdisk usage in okl4 and make it boot off the hard
>> >> disk. I tried changing kernel command line options in
>> >> linux/kernel-2.6.23-v2/Sconscript but it doesn't seem to make any
>> >> difference; it cause kernel panic as VFS is not able to detect the
>> >> partition. I'm using okl4 4.2 release. Please help me.
>> >
>> > What boot loader are you using on your hardware?
>> >
>> > In general there are two steps to getting OKL4/OK Linux to boot off the hard
>> > disk - modification of the root= option in linux/kernel/SConscript (at line
>> > 104), and configuration of your bootloader.
>> >
>> > Could you post both that line in your SConscript and some more details of
>> > your bootloader usage?
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> > Josh Matthews
>>
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