RE: l4ka::pistachio boot problem

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ashish Bijlani [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 12:10
> To: Jan Stoess
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: l4ka::pistachio boot problem
> 
> I tried booting it on qemu. However, it doesn't move ahead of the
> point where it tries mounting the root file system (VFS root mount)
> coz I can't figure out the correct "root=" option in the kernel
> command line. my root file system is mounted on /dev/hda2. However,
> when i try passing "root=/dev/hda2" in the kernel command line, then
> mounting fails with error message "incorrect root option". somehow it
> doesn't recognize /dev/hda2. any ideas what can be done now.

Yes, I've already suggested it: try using "make world; make run-qemu" with
the current HG repo. That will run afterburner on qemu, based on a sample
ramdisk downloaded from l4ka.org. You can start from there and then try to
add other options to the linux command line. 

-Jan

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