[linuxdc-dev]root=/dev/gdrom

[mag <ma...@ro...>]

Hi,

I can't seem to get my dreamcast to boot directly from the gdrom 
(without a ramdisk).
It starts booting fine, but then it gets to about the point where it 
should be mounting the root, and just stops:

...     Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 
3.12                                            SEGA Dreamcast GD-ROM 
driver                                                    AICA audio 
device driver for Dreamcast Linux - ver 0.1-pre15                    
SEGA Dreamcast MAPLE Bus 
drivers                                                NET4: Linux 
TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0                                               IP 
Protocols: ICMP, UDP, 
TCP                                                    IP: routing 
cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes                            
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 
2048)                        NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for 
Linux NET4.0.                             GD-ROM: Got larger result

And that's it. It is not frozen or anything, (it registers maple 
(dis)connect events), but it's not going anywhere either. The "GD-ROM: 
Got larger result" message looks suspicios, but as far as i could tell 
from briefly looking at the code, is not fatal.

Another idea that crossed my mind, was that this could be caused by me 
trying to use devfs, but not having the devfsd (yet). But I don't think 
that that's the problem, because I am pretty sure it does not even get 
to the first startup scripts anyway, and that's where it is normally 
started.  
I am using the following kernel parameters:  console=ttySC1,115200 
mem=16M debug root=/dev/gdrom ro

Any hints?

Thanks in advance,
	mag