This is booting with /vmlinux root=/dev/sdb.
I'm at work at the moment, so I'm not in front of the Indy. I didn't
transcribe the rest, but as I recall, hard drive model and size are
reported (correctly) for sda and sdb, followed by a line with Dave
Miller's address. The three lines I did write out came next.
My previous two boot attempts got hung up before the network detection,
seemingly because of the floptical and CD drives. I yanked out the
first and switched off the second.
Should I be doing something to partition sdb?
Thanks,
Mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex deVries [SMTP:adevries@engsoc.carleton.ca]
> Sent: Thursday, May 07, 1998 11:27 AM
> To: Michael Hill
> Cc: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
> Subject: Re: Making Progress
>
> On Thu, 7 May 1998, Michael Hill wrote:
> > Trying to boot the kernel (2.1.90) I can now get beyond the SCSI
> > detection stage but now it stops at this point:
> > Sending BOOTP and RARP requests............. timed out!
> > IP-Config: Auto-configuration of network failed.
> > Partition check:
>
> Hm. The bootup actually stops at that point? It doesn't identify any
> partitions or complain about any errors? This sounds like a SCSI
> problem
> to me.
>
> In theory, you should be able to boot with 'vmlinux root=/dev/sdb'.
>
> - alex
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