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SubjectRe: INITRD/RAMDISK/SYSLINUX booting fails with new kernel (vs 2.2 series)
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Michael Peddemors wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>
> > Hi Michael,
> >
> > I booted test7-pre5 via syslinux-1.44 with a minimal initrd.gz today.
> > Can't do much with kernel and initrd on a floppy, but she mounted
> > /dev/ram0 just fine. I do not have devfs compiled into this kernel..
> > nor any idea how to use it properly if I _did_ enable it ;-).
>
> I haven't got DEVFS enabled.
> append= release=VPN-1.1b console=tty0 initrd=initrd.gz ramdisk_size=4096
> boot=/dev/fd0u1743,vfat load_ramdisk=1 root=/dev/ram0

Now, _I'm puzzled_ ;-) None of these command-line options mean spit.
(you should not need load_ramdisk=1, that's implicit in initrd=, and
you shouldn't need to say explicitly what the rd size is.. that's a
responsibility of the boot-loader. [why this option boot=/dev/fd0u1743,vfat])

Please send me (offline) your grep '=[ym]' .config output to stare at.
I don't doubt that it doesn't work for you, but it works fine for me.

-Mike

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