Re: My worst nightmare has come true...
Jason Haas (jhaas@madison-web.com)
Thu, 31 Dec 1998 21:44:01 -0500
At 1:58 AM 1/1/99, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
>Very simple: it appears that Macintosh Partiton map support is broken when
>booted with quik. This is from memory so it may be inacurate:
>
>With quik:
>
>sda (unknown partition map):
>hda (unknown partition map):
>Kernel panic: Failed to mount root fs on XX:XX
>
>With BootX (yuck):
>sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sda5 sda6
>hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
>[Booting continues normally]
>
>This seems to affect 2.1.130-2.2pre2 but not 2.1.127. I am not sure about
>.129.
>
>It isn't a configuration problem, becuase I have tried a precompiled
>R5-pre kernel (2.2pre2) with both and only BootX works.
>
>I think that tonight I will dig out my 2.1.125 and see if it is a kernel
>problem or a problem with quik or my installation.
>
>On previous posts on linuxppc-user, I was ranting on about how BootX
>should not be the default bootloader over quik and etc... So it's not my
>favorite situation to need to use BootX.
>
>On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Paul Mackerras wrote:
>
>> Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com> wrote:
>>
>> > cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
>> > I just realized in a state of shock why kernels from 2.1.127 have not been
>> > working for me: I have been doing it the "old way" (quik). All recent
>> > kernels fail to boot becuase they can not read the mac partition map. Of
>> > course, I have mac partition map support compiled in. I finally realized
>>
>> Huh?? I can boot my 7500 just fine with quik, using either a 2.1.13*
>> kernel or a 2.2.0-pre* kernel.
>>
>> Can you give us more information about how far you get booting with
>> quik and where and how it fails? Just saying "fails to boot" doesn't
>> give us very much to go on.
>>
>> Paul.
>>
>
>
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