Re: unable to boot from srm

Hi Markus,

On Tuesday 23 September 2003 21:30, Markus wrote:
> i just installed suse 8.1 on a as4100 and trying to
> boot from srm console, with no luck.
>
> my setup looks like:
>
> fdisk /dev/sda
> 3 partitions:
> #       start       end      size     fstype   [fsize bsize  
> cpg] a:        6        21        16       ext2
>   b:       22        86        65       swap
>   c:       87       521       435       ext2
>
> /dev/sda3   /      ext2
> /dev/sda2   swap   swap

A little strange, because BSD disklabels usually use the 'c' 
partition for the whole disk. But should be OK, anyway.

> at the srm-prompt i do: boot dkb0 "root=/dev/sda3"
>
> then the machine is boot until it stop with a kernel panic, an
> says i have to specify "root=". but that's what i did as you can
> see.
>
> whith the rescue system i'm able to boot with sda3 specified as
> root.
>
> what i'm doing wrong here ?

What about this SRM line:
boot dkb0 -fl "root=/dev/sda3"

> thanks, markus

Stefan
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