"Tetsuji \"Maverick\" Rai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am making a small boot-floppy linux distro with kernel 2.6.11. The > kernel is so big that I need to load ramdisk from the second floppy > and I don't use initrd. My problem is the kernel wouldn't prompt to > load ramdisk image. I tried syslinux, grub and lilo as boot loader > and for syslinux,
The basic mechanism seems to work OK here. I couldn't be bothered setting up a floppy so I patched things: --- 25/init/do_mounts_rd.c~a 2005-03-22 19:16:22.000000000 -0800 +++ 25-akpm/init/do_mounts_rd.c 2005-03-22 19:16:26.000000000 -0800 @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ #define BUILD_CRAMDISK -int __initdata rd_prompt = 1;/* 1 = prompt for RAM disk, 0 = don't prompt */ +int rd_prompt = 1;/* 1 = prompt for RAM disk, 0 = don't prompt */ static int __init prompt_ramdisk(char *str) { diff -puN init/do_mounts.c~a init/do_mounts.c --- 25/init/do_mounts.c~a 2005-03-22 19:32:53.000000000 -0800 +++ 25-akpm/init/do_mounts.c 2005-03-22 19:41:38.000000000 -0800 @@ -371,8 +371,7 @@ void __init mount_root(void) ROOT_DEV = Root_FD0; } #endif -#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD - if (MAJOR(ROOT_DEV) == FLOPPY_MAJOR) { + if (1) { /* rd_doload is 2 for a dual initrd/ramload setup */ if (rd_doload==2) { if (rd_load_disk(1)) { @@ -382,7 +381,6 @@ void __init mount_root(void) } else change_floppy("root floppy"); } -#endif create_dev("/dev/root", ROOT_DEV, root_device_name); mount_block_root("/dev/root", root_mountflags); } _ The machine does pause at the prompt. So I'd suggest that you need to start sticking printk()s into mount_root(), rd_load_disk() and change_floppy(), see if you can work out what's happening. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/