[OLPC-devel] status with linuxbios and currnet and marcelo's boot code and jordan's kernel

[Ronald G Minnich]

OK, I tried it with the following:
root=/dev/sda2 rw console=ttyS0,115200

and got this (I dropped some off)

RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
AMD5536: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:0f.2
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:0f.2 (0040 -> 0041)
AMD5536: chipset revision 1
AMD5536: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
AMD5536: 0000:00:0f.2 (rev 01) UDMA100 controller
AMD5536: neither IDE port enabled (BIOS)
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
usbcore: registered new driver libusual
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
i8042.c: No controller found.
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: bitmap version 4.39
TCP bic registered
Initializing IPsec netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
VFS: Cannot open root device "sda2" or unknown-block(0,0)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 
unknown-block(0,0)
  <c0424b4b> panic+0x46/0x197  <c073eb76> mount_block_root+0x20e/0x21d
  <c073ebcb> mount_root+0x46/0x5a  <c073ecac> prepare_namespace+0xcd/0x113
  <c046a1e4> sys_access+0x1f/0x23  <c04004ca> init+0x1f6/0x2cd
  <c0403d36> ret_from_fork+0x6/0x14  <c04002d4> init+0x0/0x2cd
  <c04002d4> init+0x0/0x2cd  <c0402005> kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb

So, the kernel on the OLPC devel image does not quite appear to have usb 
  built in? The kernel is on partition 1, and is called
vmlinuz-2.6.16-1.2289_FC6

Is that what I should use?

thanks

ron