<DIV>Just a correction.. after i changed to vda2 the following errors appear on the console:</DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>mf.c: Preparing to bounce...<BR>LINUXRH : Console connected.<BR>pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured<BR>NET4: Frame Diverter 0.46<BR>RAMDISK driver initialized: 256 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize<BR>md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27<BR>md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.<BR>md: autorun ...<BR>md: ... autorun DONE.<BR>Initializing Cryptographic API<BR>NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0<BR>IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 32Kbytes<BR>TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)<BR>Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM<BR>Initializing IPsec netlink socket<BR>NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.<BR>RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0<BR>Freeing initrd memory: 788k freed<BR>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.<BR>Freeing unused kernel memory: 156k init<BR>Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG>Rebooting in 180 seconds..<BR></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV>What to do now??</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks and Kind Regards,</DIV>
<DIV>Wjeeha Tahir<BR><BR><B><I>Wjeeha Tahir <wjfast@yahoo.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 01:30:41 -0700 (PDT)<BR>From: Wjeeha Tahir <WJFAST@YAHOO.COM><BR>Subject: Re: Booting Linux from HardDisk on iSeries<BR>To: Stephen Rothwell <SFR@CANB.AUUG.ORG.AU><BR>CC: linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org<BR><BR>
<DIV>I changed to vda2 but now Linux isnt booting at all. When the console connects to iSreies then the screen is blank. The errors that were being given initially are not appearing now. I am totally stuck.</DIV>
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<DIV>Please help in this regard.<BR><BR><B><I>Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 23:33:30 -0700 (PDT) Wjeeha Tahir <WJFAST@YAHOO.COM>wrote:<BR>><BR>> but when I booted from "IPL Source" = *NWSSTG ,"Stream file" = *NONE,<BR>> "IPL parameters" = 'root=/dev/iseries/vda1," , the Linux doesnt boot and<BR>^^^^<BR>This should be vda2 ...<BR><BR>Linux did boot, it just could not find its root file system ...<BR>-- <BR>Cheers,<BR>Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au<BR>http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/<BR><BR><BR>> ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature <BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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