Project:Bifferboard

Bifferboard doesn't have working serial, so we need a distro that boots without asking.

Tried http://blog.famzah.net/category/bifferboard/ This can be done on Babbage (it has an autosensing ethernet card):

sudo ./bb_eth_upload.py eth0 00:b3:f6:00:35:c7 ../vmlinuz-2.6.30.5-bifferboard-ipipe

And everything else from there. Wouldn't boot:

VFS: Cannot open root device "<NULL>" or unknown-block(0,0)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

Ditto for http://www.sunspot.co.uk/Projects/Bifferboard/Debian_distro.html:

[    0.822178] usb usb2: Product: OHCI Host Controller
[    0.827287] usb usb2: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.32.2-bifferboard ohci_hcd
[    0.827287] usb usb2: SerialNumber: 0000:00:0a.0
[    0.838835] usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[    0.846961] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[    0.846961] hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[    0.856890] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[    0.856890] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[    0.871526] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[    0.876429] VFS: Cannot open root device "<NULL>" or unknown-block(0,0)
[    0.890057] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
[    0.898733] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

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Final result: Slackware works perfectly, without any trouble. Debian, does not. At all.

Not that any of this matters, as ms7821 fried the thing...