Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Nov 2000 16:31:23 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | linux 2.4.0-test9 |
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Linux 2.4.0-test9 can be built and booted via initrd when running a 2.2.17 kernel.
However when running, the new kernel 2.4.0-test9, can't be used to make a usable initrd ram disk. The result being that 2.4.0-test9 can't, itself, build an "initrd" bootable system.
Before everybody screams that I don't know what I'm doing, let me assure you that I know that the two kernels put their modules in different directories and the new directory scheme seems to require the latest and greatest version of modutils.
I have two ways of building an initial RAM disk (they both use scripts, not provided with any distribution). One uses the loop-device and the other uses the RAM disk directly. Because of previous problems, on some kernel versions, with the loop device (it was being mucked with for encription), I exclusively use the RAM disk to build initrd.
Therefore, the problem seems to be that 2.4.0-test9 has a problem with the RAM Disk.
Cheers, Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.2.17 on an i686 machine (801.18 BogoMips).
"Memory is like gasoline. You use it up when you are running. Of course you get it all back when you reboot..."; Actual explanation obtained from the Micro$oft help desk.
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