[okl4-developer] okl4 off the disk

[Geoffrey Lee]

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 11:02:00AM -0400, Ashish Bijlani wrote:
> 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.
> 

Hi Ashish,

I was more interested in the IDE chipset that you are using.  Sorry
for not being clear about that.  We only compile a very limited
set of drivers into OK Linux, it is possible that support for 
your chipset is not compiled in.

	-gl

> 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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