Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 14 Jul 1996 21:01:49 -0400 | From | "Darrin R. Smith" <> | Subject | 2.0.4 -- boot from ramdisk broken?? |
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I am having some trouble with booting from a ramdisk. At this point, I have tried using kernels with/without initrd support, but nothing seems to work. The kernel boots and detects all of the hardware properly, but right after it mounts the root filesystem on the ramdisk, the system just stops -- no error messages, nothing from init, etc.
I have read all of the documentation I can get my hands on, and I have followed the examples to the letter and I still get the same result every time. My setup is as follows:
floppy #1: kernel 2.0.4, lilo 19 floppy #2: compressed ramdisk image copy of the redhat rescue diskette. Compressed image starts at block 0, and it was compressed with gzip -v9 .
lilo.conf: # Start LILO global section boot = /dev/fd0 vga = -1 # force sane state prompt
# Linux bootable partition config begins image = /zImage root = /dev/fd0H1440 #load ramdisk from floppy #ask the user to insert a floppy #specify the size of the ramdisk append="load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1 ramdisk_size=2880 ramdisk_start=0" label = linux read-write
I don't have the .config right here in front of me, but I would be happy to get it and send it to anyone who's interested. If the problem is something I messed up, I would be happy to hear it, since we need this to do backups of our systems.
--Darrin
-- FAQ Suggestions: Q: I upgraded without reading release notes, now my system's broke - why? A: What the @!#* did you expect? (this assumes that someone reads the faq, of course ;)
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