Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Feb 2005 02:25:39 +0000 | From | Pedro Venda <> | Subject | Re: Help - really messed up kernel |
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Joshua Hudson wrote: | I am trying to install linux on a laptop that cannot boot from cdrom. | I got a stripped-down kernel to boot from floppy, ran lspci to get | the hardware information. | | I then reconfigured and rebuilt the kernel for the image. | | I built this kernel from stock 2.6.10 from www.kernel.org. | This is the configuration file. I then installed it on a floppy disk | with syslinux, then tried to boot it. | | boot: vmlinuz root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1 | (my ramdisk is the next flooppy, this kernel is 1.3mb) | Did not load the ramdisk. | I got an error about unable to open root on "<NULL>" or device 22,6. | Hmm. So, I ran rdev to set the kernel default root to /dev/fd0 and booted. | | Result: loaded the ramdisk, then complained about lack of a valid | filesystem on /dev/fd0
you want to load your root filesystem into a ramdisk and use it from there.
your kernel command line is wrong. it should have root=/dev/rd/0 or root=/dev/ram0 instead of root=/dev/fd0.
after loading the initrd, your root filesystem is on a ramdisk.
regards, pedro venda. - --
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