Problems with getting 8.1 to mount root at boot

Rikard Johnels <[email protected]> Mon, 22 Dec 2003 21:51:13 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.axp
Message-ID <[email protected]>
No matter how i try to get the aboot to recognoze my root part i get the 
error:
aboot: booting from device 'SCSI 0 6 0 0 0 0 0'
aboot: valid disklabel found: 4 partitions.
ext2_init: bad magic 0x0
aboot: mount of parttition 4 failed

then the aboot menue


If i boot from cd, and install all modules needed i can boot the installed 
system:

linux:~ # fdisk /dev/sda
Detected an OSF/1 disklabel on /dev/sda, entering disklabel mode.
BSD disklabel command (m for help): p
4 partitions:
#       start       end      size     fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
  a:        3        23        21       ext2
  b:       24       284       261       swap
  c:        1      1018      1018     unused        0     0
  d:      285      1017       733       ext2

linux:~ # mount
/dev/sda4 on / type xfs (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
shmfs on /dev/shm type shm (rw)

linux:~ # lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
ext3                  110184   0  (autoclean)
jbd                    72048   0  (autoclean) [ext3]
st                     37540   0  (autoclean) (unused)
isa-pnp                43496   0  (unused)
ipv6                  205672  -1  (autoclean)
lvm-mod                84248   0  (autoclean)
reiserfs              311304   1
xfs                   686968   0
xfs_dmapi              46602   0  [xfs]
xfs_support            11984   0  [xfs xfs_dmapi]
de4x5                  59980   1
sym53c8xx              95430   5
sg                     36896   0
cramfs                 72504   0
af_packet              19832   1

I have added a /boot/etc/aboot.conf
made mkinitrd and copied the initrd to /boot

linux:~ # ls -l /boot
total 3448
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         1024 Dec 22 11:11 .
drwxr-xr-x   19 root     root          432 Dec 22 11:21 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       726568 Apr 25  2003 System.map-2.4.19
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        83456 Apr 25  2003 bootlx
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1024 Dec 22 10:07 etc
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      1107764 Dec 22 11:11 initrd
drwx------    2 root     root        12288 Dec 22 08:45 lost+found
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      1448875 Apr 25  2003 vmlinuz
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        83654 Apr 25  2003 vmlinuz.autoconf.h
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        42030 Apr 25  2003 vmlinuz.config
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          126 Apr 25  2003 vmlinuz.version.h

linux:~ # cat /boot/etc/aboot.conf
0:1/vmlinuz ro root=/dev/sda4 initrd=initrd


I am at a loss here..
What am i missing
-- 

         /Rikard

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