by Terry Carli » Tue, 15 Dec 1998 04:00:00
> I'd like to install LinuxPPC on a IBM ThinkPad 850, which formerly ran
> AIX.
> I got installer.prep-980906 from ftp://linuxppc.cs.nmt.edu/pub/linuxppc/install
> and a CD with linuxppc-lite (homemade). When Install comes to copy the
> files from CD to harddisk, the kernel panics: "unable to mount root fs
> on 03:01".
> Any hints?
> THX
> Rainer
by Richard S. Lumpki » Tue, 15 Dec 1998 04:00:00
> Hi *,
> I'd like to install LinuxPPC on a IBM ThinkPad 850, which formerly ran
> AIX.
> I got installer.prep-980906 from ftp://linuxppc.cs.nmt.edu/pub/linuxppc/install
> and a CD with linuxppc-lite (homemade). When Install comes to copy the
> files from CD to harddisk, the kernel panics: "unable to mount root fs
> on 03:01".
> Any hints?
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Richard S. Lumpkin, Ph.D. Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry 256-890-6365
University of Alabama in Huntsville fax 256-890-6349
Huntsville, AL 35899 http://chromophore.uah.edu
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1. LinuxPPC on an IBM ThinkPad 850
I have been trying for weeks to get Linux installed on this system and I am
just about out of ideas. I purchased PowerPC Linux version 4.1 (with a
preorder of 5.0), but after loading the prep.image diskette the system just
sits there dead.
Someone sent me images for FD_SETUP and FD_BOOT from a couple of years ago.
These are based on a 2.0.28 kernel I am told. These boot up just fine and I
have been able to partition and format the harddisk, copy files to it, etc.
But I do not have the other diskettes needed for a floppy install (via
crdisk-net), nor the matching CD-ROM. crdisk-net seems to be looking for a
file named basefs.tar as the next step. This method uses the PAX program.
I next tried extracting the files out of the R4 CD-ROM install ramdisk
image, putting these on another partition on the harddisk, booting using my
FD_SETUP diskette and then running the R4 install program. The normal RedHat
installation prompts start out OK, but install dies just after mounting the
CD-ROM. I see messages indicating that the CD-ROM was mounted OK, but
nothing more happens. Pressing the enter key just scrolls the screen by a
line.
Does anyone have any ideas? Does anyone have the 5 diskette set including
FD_SETUP and FD_BOOT that they could send to me? Or an iso image of the
matching CD-ROM?
Frustrated,
Steve
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