Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Problems with iso9660 as initrd | From | Christian Laursen <> | Date | 07 Feb 2002 23:30:24 +0100 |
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Matthias Kilian <kili@outback.escape.de> writes:
> On 6 Feb 2002, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > > I am building a floppy using a compressed iso9660 filesystem as an > > > initrd image. > [...] > > You definitely are... I don't think anyone else has ever tried running > > a zisofs off a ramdisk before! > > On for an initrd, it will never work, since initrd checks for minix, ext2 > and romfs only (see drivers/block/rd.c, identify_ramdisk_image()).
It seems you are right. To be more precise it will not work on a ramdisk at all.
A normal ramdisk will just fail to mount when there's an iso9660 fs on it, whereas an initrd seems to cause a panic.
I guess it would be nice to output a somewhat friendly error message instead.
Oh well...
After further research I decided to use romfs instead, since it can too be generated quite easily with a script, and it works quite well.
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