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Von: Troy Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Datum: Donnerstag, 7. Juni 2001 07:01
Betreff: [rtl] Booting from flash disk
>Hello-
> I am following the instructions of Bernd Stahlbock on his method of
booting
>from a flashdisk using initrd and a ram drive. Everything works fine up
>until just after the partion check on boot:
>
>Partition check:
> sda: sda1
> hda: hda1
>RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
>[MS-DOS FS Rel. 12.FAT 0,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap]
>[me=0x0,cs=0,#f=0,fs=0,fl=0,ds=0,de=0,data=0,se=0,ts=0,ls=0,rc=0,fc=4294967
2
>95]
>Transaction block size = 512
>Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00
>
> I have initrd and ramdisk support compiled into the kernel.
> I've never used initrd before, so I don't know if it is working correctly.
>My flashdisk is formatted as e2fs and only contains a boot directory and
>initrd.img.gz. One thing I could not do in following Bernd's instructions
>is to use gzip to compress my file structure image. I got errors stating
>all of my devices in /dev were not 'a directory or a regular file -
>ignored'. I used tar czf but I'm not sure that this will work.
> Is this error a file system error? Or initrd?
try:
mke2fs -m0 /dev/ram 3500
mkdir /mnt/ram/dev
cp -a /dev/* /mnt/ram
... cp others
umount /dev/ram
dd if=/dev/ram bs=1k count=3500 of=/boot/INITRD
cd /boot
gzip -f -9 INITRD
or look at M-Systems Disk-on-Chip with Linux OS
ciao
alfred
>
>
>Troy Davis
>Airborne Data Systems, Inc.
>
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