[oclug] Installing Debian on a MacII

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 10:37:55AM -0400, Albert Cardarelli wrote:
> I was booting Debian Linux on a MacII when the Penguin 19 Bootloader gave me this
> last message:  Kernal panic:VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:04      I gave it
> the command line to root=/dev/sda4, where there is a pre-partioned 312 meg root
> partiiton waiting for the kernal data... the type of partition is reported to be
> Apple_UNIX_SVR2.

the kernel is looking for a root _filesystem_ there (and will subsequently
look for /sbin/init).  you need to have created a filesystem on that
partition including whatever bits of userspace are needed to get init
running.  the kernel ignores the partition type.

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