Subject: Re: NetBSD and root fs
To: Marcin Jessa <lists@yazzy.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: tech-embed
Date: 03/30/2005 19:23:52
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 09:01:22AM +0000, Marcin Jessa wrote:
> [...]
>
> What I get on my soekris is it loads the kernel and stops, which IMO is becouse it cannot find the init binary:
others have already replied to the memory disk as root part. But, from this:
>
> NetBSD/i386 ffsv1 Primary Bootstrap
>
> >> NetBSD/i386 BIOS Boot, Revision 3.1
> >> (builds@build, Wed Dec 1 10:39:14 UTC 2004)
> >> Memory: 639/64512 k
> Press return to boot now, any other key for boot menu
> booting hd0a:netbsd - starting in 0
> open netbsd: No such file or directory
> boot: hd0a:netbsd: No such file or directory
> booting hd0a:netbsd.gz
> 1582312+294116+165776 [130912+116134]=0x2301d0
I think you have a bigger problem, which is that the boot loader doesn't
properly start the kernel, or the kernel has its console on the wrong device.
Have you successfully loaded a NetBSD kernel on this box ?
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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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