Dapper2 FT2, boot problems

[Magnus Therning]

On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 09:14:13AM +0000, Magnus Therning wrote:
>On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 06:01:40PM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
>>Magnus Therning wrote:
>>
>>> Downloaded Dapper FT2 and put it on a CD yesterday. Installed it today,
>>> non-expert mode, without any problems. Chose to use two partitions on my
>>> SATA disk (only have one disk in the computer):
>>> 
>>>  /dev/sda7 -> /boot
>>>  /dev/sda8 -> /
>>> 
>>> Booting works fine until the kernel is loaded. Then I get the message
>>> that /dev/sda8 couldn't be found and I'm dropped into a BusyBox.
>>> 
>>> Grub entry:
>>> 
>>>  title           Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.15-8-386
>>>  root            (hd0,6)
>>>  kernel          /vmlinuz-2.6.15-8-386 root=/dev/sda8 ro quiet
>>>  initrd          /initrd.img-2.6.15-8-386
>>>  savedefault
>>>  boot
>>> 
>>> Any idea on how to solve it?
>>> 
>>
>>Not really - it's what I saw with the earlier 2.6.15 kernels, though I think
>>the actual fix was in udev.  I'm now using 2.6.15-8-686 (note the 686) and
>>udev 077-0ubuntu5 and the problem's gone away.  Otherwise, you might need
>>an earlier kernel (the previous one I'd used was 2.6.12-9-686).
>
>Those are the exact versions that are shipped with the Dapper FT2 CD
>(well, since I'm on a AMD machine I tried k7).
>
>I'm downloading the kernel sources while writing this to see if I can
>find a way to solve it...

I did get it working, but it wasn't pretty. Hardwire SCSI (and SATA
support) into the kernel. Then I had problems with compiling the kernel
using the gcc version on the Dapper CD (4.0). I didn't bother trying
with gcc3.4.

I've decided to lay off Dapper until it's released, or I get a more
reliable network connection, whichever happens first...

/M

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