RE: sunblade sound problems

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Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.sparc
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Hi,

> I have downloaded the disc 1 and disc 2 of the Debian dist but am having
> problems booting.  I get to the LILO prompt and it is looking for a
> sparc64.gz in the boot directory.  There is not a sparc64.gz in the boot
> directory.  When I tell it to boot from /boot/sparc64 (this file does
> exist)
> it boots and then the kernel panics after setting the info for Linux NET4.0
> with "Kernel Panic: I have no root and I want to scream" error.

You have to provide an initrd to the kernel. Try "/boot/sparc64 
initrd=/dists/woody/main/disks-sparc/current/images-1.44/root.bin"

I hope this helps.

Olivier


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