Re: pxes 0.8 (gentoo) problem - cannot open initial console - cannot mount devfs

On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 20:43, Nick Rout wrote:
> Hi there, i finally got the gentoo ebuild of pxes to work and ran
> pxesconfig.

There's no need to mention Gentoo unless you think this is a
Gentoo-specific problem, in which case you should be posting a bug at
bugs.gentoo.org and assigning it to the maintainer (me) to look at.

> Now when i boot the terminal (compaq PIII 650, 128M RAM, nvidia pci card)
> it boots but part way through it freezes up and says something along the
> lines:
> 
> cannot mount devfs error -2
> 
> then two lines later
> 
> cannot open initial console
> 
> which seems unsurprising if it cannot mount devfs. I am using the
> standard kernel supplied with pxes 0.8 ( vmlinuz-2.4.20-10pxes.i586).
> The initrd was generated by pxesconfig.

Were there any errors during the creation of the initrd?

> I am booting from etherboot on a floppy rather than pxe, as pxe doesn't
> seem to handle the tftp server being on a different box to the dhcp
> server. etherboot loads nbgrub, and grub has the command lines in its
> menu:
> 
>  kernel /pxes/vmlinuz-2.4.20-10pxes.i586 ro root=/dev/ram sd=ask ramdisk_size=65535
>         initrd /pxes/pxes-0.8.initrd
> 
> 
> Any clues on where to from here?
-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering QA Manager/Games Developer
Gentoo Linux

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