Re: [ts-7000] Can't boot 7250 to Debian on USB drive

["J. Langley" <>]

I had the same type of issue using the TS-7200 with a CF card for the file system.  I found that I had to format the card as ext2 using the "-I 128" parameter to get the file system to use an inode size of 128.  I'm not sure if that will help you or not.

Good Luck!
-J.

On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Mike Dodd <> wrote:

 

Help! I'm trying to boot a 7350 into Debian Sarge on a USB drive, but get a (Redboot, apparently) error message:

VFS: Cannot open root device "hda1" or 03:01
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:01

I fdisk'ed and formated my USB drive EXT2, downloaded and untarred debian-sarge-usb_default.tar.gz to the USB drive, using a PC running Debian Squeeze. An ls -l command to the mounted USB drive on that PC showed the same directory tree I see for ARM Sarge for NFS on my Linux server (and which a 7250 boots okay).

I configured Redboot fconfig according to the TS ARM Linux manual with:

fis load vmlinux
exec -c "console=ttyAM0,115200 ip=192.168.1.52 root=/dev/hda1"

The 'Please append a correct "root=" boot option' message seems to indicate that Redboot doesn't like /dev/hda1, but it also doesn't like /dev/sda1. My USB drive is plugged into the lower USB port.

Does anyone have any idea what I should use to boot to the USB?

Thanks in advance.

--- Mike

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