indeed .. for the making of the image I had to use "dd if=initrd.lrp" instead of "dd if=/dev/zero" I guess .. So I changed this, and my file is now a lot bigger .. but still 70kb's smaller then the original file and still blocking on the same
So I must be doing something wrong somewhere .. I'm not a real expert at these things, so it's possible I'm looking over something very small grtz, Tom Citeren KP Kirchdoerfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wednesday 26 March 2008 10:56:47 Tom Hendrickx wrote: >> Hi Eric >> >> My plan is indeed to load the packages from an ext2 fs .. >> So what I did was the following: >> >> initrd.lrp >> >> initrd.lrp is a different package - it's a compressed, minix formatted >> filesystem. To add or change it's content you have to uncompress it and >> mount it on a minix formatted mount point: >> >> dd if=/dev/zero of=initrd bs=1k count=1500 >> mkfs.minix initrd 4096 >> mount -t minix initrd /mnt -o loop >> >> Copy the contents for the initrd package to the /mnt directory: >> this is the ext2.o file >> >> sync >> umount /mnt >> gzip -9 initrd >> mv initrd.gz initrd.lrp >> >> then when I try to start the machine to see if everything still works I >> get this error: >> Warning : unable to open an initial console. >> Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to Kernel. >> >> *and everything hangs* >> ps: it's still on a fat filesystem .. but that's still inside the >> initrd normally so it shouldn't make any difference >> >> Tom > > It looks like you created an nearly empty initrd, only containing ext2.o - > that's not enough. > > Start again, mount an initrd_ide.lrp and _add_ ext2.o to /boot/lib/modules > and load it in /boot/etc/modules. > > kp > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
