I am getting the same problem with a Compaq 486 using an ISA NE2000
compatible NIC. The following is a portion of the message lines that
proceeded the kernel panic stop message.
...
mknbi-1.2-7/first32.c (GPL)
Top of initrd is 21504k
Ramdisk at 0X01483000, size 0X0007D000
Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
Linux version 2.4.9-Ltsp-lpp-6 (root@BigDog) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red
Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98)) #24 Thu Mar 7 14:23:49 EST 2002
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e801: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable)
BIOS-e801: 0000000000100000 - 0000000001400000 (usable)
On node 0 totalpages: 5120
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 1024 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
initrd extends beyond end of memory (0x01500000 > 0x01400000)
disabling initrd
kernel command line: rw root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc rw NIC=ne IO=0x300
Initializing CPU#0
...
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Jim McQuillan wrote:
>Sheilafel,
>
>If you are getting the 'VFS' panic, that probably indicates
>there was a problem with installing the initrd in memory.
>
>Press Shift-PageUp, and scroll back through the boot messages.
>Way up near the top, you should see where the memory map
>is, and you might see some messages about the initrd.
>See if you see an error up there, possibly explaining what
>is wrong.
>
>Jim McQuillan
><EMAIL: PROTECTED>
>
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Sheilafel Vida wrote:
> i've been getting the following message when trying to boot my diskless
workstation running on pentium 1 at 133 mhz...
>
> VFS: Cannot openroot device "ram0" or 01:00
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00
>
> Sandro!
> i've tried checking dhcpd.conf. i believe the correct option path has
been appended. the error is still there!!! could it be that the pc has
problems! i really need to fix this problem before the month ends, thanks
a lot. (",)
>
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