[parisc-linux] C180 netbooting

Matthew Wilcox willy@debian.org
Thu, 23 Aug 2001 19:40:14 +0100


On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 02:21:10PM -0400, nick@snowman.net wrote:
> I'm not even getting that far.  I can't get the linux kernel to start
> booting, I always get errors along the lines of 
> Current command line:
> vmlinux HOME=/ TERM=vt100 root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=172.16.1.1:/mnt
> console=ttyS0
>  0: vmlinux
>  1: HOME=/
>  2: TERM=vt100
>  3: root=/dev/nfs
>  4: nfsroot=172.16.1.1:/mnt
>  5: console=ttyS0
> Edit which field?
> (or 'b' to boot with this command line)? b
> Kernel: partition 0 file vmlinux
> ERROR: Read from boot device failed (status = -3).
> byteio_read: seekread() returned -1 expected 2048

You're running into a known palo bug.  Sometimes when you're editing
entries it does this.  No-one's tracked down the cause yet (and it
is sporadic).

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