by Earlier this year I installed LinuxPPC/2000 on an old PowerMac 7200/90.
I'm not using the graphic stuff, the computer just sits in the corner
and works as the mail server for vailstar.com, and as my test web server
on the intranet. I had rebooted several times while getting it set up
the way I wanted it, and then left it alone.
It had been up for almost four months before I did something stupid and
had to restart it. I'd been running it "headless" (no monitor or
keyboard) and I stupidly did something to bring networking down. Well,
no problem, I thought...I'll just power it off and on again. Only it
didn't start up, it went into a loop where it would "bong", work the
hard disk for a few seconds and go silent, then "bong" again after three
minutes. I finally hooked up a monitor and keyboard to discover that
was getting a kernel panic, saying "no init!".
I finally got it to boot by booting from a MacOS CD and running the
"Boot Linux" control panel and adding "init = /sbin/init" to the kernel
options, and telling it the root is /dev/sdb6. But it used to know
this. I originally followed the instructions to get it to boot
automatically into LinuxPPC (creating the /boot partition, etc.)...where
is this information stored, and how do I put it back without
re-installing? The files in the /boot partition don't seem to contain
anything that would control this.
Puzzled,
Kevin
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Kevin Michael Vail | a billion stars go spinning through the night,
. . . . . . . . . | But _in_ you is the presence that
. . . . . . . . . | will be, when all the stars are dead. (Rainer Maria Rilke)