Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Nov 2006 11:48:08 +0100 | From | Heiko Gerstung <> | Subject | Initial ramdisk support does not work (for me) on 2.6.17.13 |
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Hi!
We are building embedded devices based on Linux and we use a ramdisk as our root device in order to avoid problems with people switching off the unit without a proper shutdown and to save write-cycles on our flash disc.
Using a 2.6.12 kernel it was no problem to boot the system by using this kernel parameters: load_ramdisk=1 console=tty0 initrd=initrd.gz rw vga=769 ramdisk_size=32768 root=/dev/ram0
Today I tried to test run a 2.6.17.12 kernel using the same parameters but I get this error message: VFS: Cannot open root device "ram0" or unknown-block(1,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option
The RAMDISK driver seems to be initialized correctly and the initrd image (gzipped ext2fs) contains a block device /dev/ram0 with major 1 and minor 0 ...
Any hints what has changed and how I can get this kernel to use a ramdisk as its root device?
Thanks in advance, best regards, Heiko
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