Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: ramdisk problem | Date | Mon, 10 Jun 1996 16:59:41 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Lex Spoon" <> |
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Albert Cahalan wrote: > > Something changed the ramdisk behavior from 1.3.93 to 1.99.12. > > In Linux 1.3.93, this works fine: > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram0 bs=1k count=1 > But 1.3.93 seems to have a limit of 2880 kB. > kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 01:00, sector 5760 > > In Linux 1.99.12, writes to /dev/ram0 won't work at all. > kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 01:00, sector 0 > > The device is correct according to the device list, /proc tells me > that it is in the kernel, I'm not out of ram, I do have permission > to write to the device... What happened? > >
Check your startup messages closely; do they say anything about your ramdisks being limitted to 0 bytes?
I had a problem in that my /etc/lilo.conf had something like "ramsize = 0" (i forget the exact variable), as a "sanity check" as they put it. ARG! So maybe check your /etc/lilo.conf?
Lex
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