> From: osymh@gemini.oscs.montana.edu (Michael L. Hitch)
> 
> On Jun  4, 11:56pm, "Stephen J. Roznowski" wrote:
> > > From: osymh@gemini.oscs.montana.edu (Michael L. Hitch)
> > > On Jun  4,  8:24pm, "Stephen J. Roznowski" wrote:
> > > > I've tried to boot a GENERIC kernel that was built with 940601
> > > > supped sources, but I get a "missing root" error. What am I
> > > > missing (before I start digging through the source code :-)?
> > > 
> > >   I'm running a kernel from sources supped today and it boots with
> > > no problem.  I just searched the kernel and don't see any message
> > > about "missing root", so I don't know where that would be coming
> > > from.  I even searched the entire source tree and don't see that
> > > message.  Perhaps you are getting the "no suitable root" message?
> > 
> > That's the message, I was too lazy to look it up. :-)
> 
>  [ . . . ]
> 
>   Also, does the startup message indicate an Amiga 3000?  If loadbsd
> or the kernel doesn't detect the A3000, it won't configure the A3000
> SCSI.

If it would have had teeth, it would have bit me.....

The problem was that I was using the "940512" (version 2.4) of the
loadbsd program which identified my machine as an "500/2000".
Downconverting to the previous version that I was using (version 2.0)
allowed me to boot.

What is the latest version of loadbsd? (version 2.4 (30.4.94)?) Does
this correctly handle the "A3000 bonus/A3000 Bonus" issue? (I think
that is what bit me). Also, would it be worthwhile to add a "cpu"
flag to override what loadbsd discovers? [i.e. loadbsd -c3000 tells
loadbsd that I'm on a 3000]

Well, off to try to build binaries... :-)

-SR

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