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Posted Feb 19, 2006 23:32 UTC (Sun) by Mithrandir (subscriber, #3031)
In reply to: Linux is running on ... by dcoutts
Parent article: Linux is running on ...

Surely it's more likely that he doesn't have a working driver for the underlying SCSI controller or disk and therefore couldn't specify a root device.


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Posted Feb 19, 2006 23:52 UTC (Sun) by jwb (subscriber, #15467) [Link]

You need only look at the boot log to see that the kernel discovered his 4 SCSI disks and one ATAPI CDROM, as well as the four ethernet interfaces and various USB root hubs. It really is true that root= was not specified.

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Posted Feb 21, 2006 12:26 UTC (Tue) by ewan (subscriber, #5533) [Link]

Indeed, he's now got a full Ubuntu system running on it.

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