Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > On Fri, 2002-03-15 22:16:08 +1030, Guo-Rong Koh <grk@start.com.au> > wrote in message <B1516392835@i01sv4138.ids1.intelonline.com>: > > .... > > This DECstation is a Personal DS5000/xx > > CPU revision is: 00000230 > > FPU revision is: 00000340 > > Primary instruction cache 64kb, linesize 4 bytes > > Primary data cache 64kb, linesize 4 bytes > > Linux version 2.4.16 (root@elrond) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat > > Linux 7.1 2.96-96.1)) #7 Sun Dec 23 14:57:24 MET 2001 > > Determined physical RAM map: > > memory: 01000000 @ 00000000 (usable) > > On node 0 totalpages: 4096 > > zone(0): 4096 pages. > > zone(1): 0 pages. > > zone(2): 0 pages. > > Kernel command line: root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.2.145:/mips > > ip=bootp > > Command line looks good to me. > > > Calibrating delay loop... 24.87 BogoMIPS > > Memory: 13520k/16384k available (2007k kernel code, 2864k reserved, > > 87k data, 76k init) > > Dentry-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) > > Inode-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) > > Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) > > Kernel panic: can't allocate root vfsmount > > In idle task - not syncing > > --kernel boot dump finishes here-- > > You attempt to do nfsroot, but I can't see that your network card > has been detected. Are you sure you've included it into kernel > compile? If not, do so... He uses my kernel image. I'm sure I've included the DECStation 5000 ethernet card, because the same image works OK on other DECStations. I don't have access to a 5000/25 however. Regards, Karel. -- Karel van Houten ---------------------------------------------------------- The box said "Requires Windows 95 or better." I can't understand why it won't work on my Linux computer. ----------------------------------------------------------