On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Rich Payne wrote:
>
> In order for initrd to work your bootloader also has to support it, in
> this
> case aboot. You don't say which distribution you're running but SuSE has
> done some work on initrd support for aboot. There's even a patch
> (somewhere) on their ftp site for this.
My state of aboot is on ftp.suse.com/pub/people/ro/aboot
However, if the machine has sufficient ( >64, >128 ??) RAM, this
will still not work and you might need the patch from Andrea Arcangeli
ftp.*kernel.org:/...../people/andrea/patches/v2.2/2.2.14/alpha_initrd_fixes.gz
>
> --rdp
>
> On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, kuldeep wrote:
>
> > I am trying to use a drive on a custom storage controller as root drive
> > in Alpha DS20.
> > So I tried initrd.
> > I am getting messages like "initrd overwritten .... disabling it"
> > during bootup and /linuxrc does not run.
> > I am using 2.2.10 kernel.( happens with 2.2.12 kernel also).
> >
> > Below is the message displayed during bootup
> >
> > .
> > .
> > .
> > Linux version 2.2.10 (root@alpha-linux) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66
> > 19990314/Linux(egcs-1.1.2 release))
> > Booting on Tsunami variation Goldrush using machine vector DP264
> > Command line: initrd=/boot/initrd bootdevice=sda2
> > bootfile=boot/init.gz
> > Initial ramdisk at: 0xefefefefefefefef (17289301308300324847 bytes)
> > Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
> > Calibrating delay loop... 996.15 BogoMIPS
> > initrd overwritten (0xefefefefefefefef < 0xfffffc0000776180)
> > - disabling it.
> > Memory: 254936k available
> > .
> > .
> > .
> >
> > What should I do to get it initrd up? Is there any other way to this
> > up?
> >
> > Please post a reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as I am not on the
> > Alpha-linux mailing list.
> > Please redirect me to any other list if this is not the appropriate
> > forum.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Kuldeep
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
>
> Rich Payne
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.alphalinux.org
>
>
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with kind regards (mit freundlichem Grinsen),
Ruediger Oertel ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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