Ok, I'm a tony bit confused. Have you installed the OS on the drives, and are now booting the OS for the first time from disk, or do you get these messages when you are booting from CD? If sda is a hard disk, how is it partitioned? Did you use a sun disk label, or some other set of partitions / file systems? If it's a CD, I've been running Debian/SPARC on all my sparc hardware without issue, and manage to boot successfully from CD everytime (has worked for me on Ultra 10, Ultra 60, Ultra 1, Ultra 2, Sparc 20/10/5/2/1 and even some of the older VME type hardware). Let me where you've gotten, maybe I can lend a hand. --Adam On Mon, March 19, 2007 5:27 pm, ken jones said:
I just acquired by second Sparc ULTRA1 Creator. It does not boot. After much struggle complaining about not finding sda4, it concludes:
VSF: can not open root device "sda4" or 08:04 Please append a correct "root=" boot device Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 08:04 Press L1-a to return to the boot prom
I've tried booting from my aurora 1.0 iso disk set. No luck. I've tried booting from my just out of the envelope GENTOO disk. No luck.
Before it gives up it seems to have found the two scsi drives. It says: Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id0, lun Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id1, lun
It has found the following partitions partitions if that is what these are. /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4 and /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1 p3
I stopped the boot: with a "stop a". ok test scsi > CE DMA fill from address ffee2000 for 80 bytes succeeded Dma register test -- succeeded Esp register test -- succeeded Dma read test -- succeeded Dma write test -- succeeded
Any ideas?
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