Re: Booting from USB with initrd

2005-04-18 Thread Bernhard Schauer
On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 22:15 +0200, gabriel wrote: > Yeah.. but it shouldn't matter much since I've not been able to load the > initrd > yet? > I had just a look at all those things... It simply was a question coming into my mind... > My kernel never complains about root= bla it only says

Re: Booting from USB with initrd

2005-04-18 Thread Bernhard Schauer
On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 22:15 +0200, gabriel wrote: Yeah.. but it shouldn't matter much since I've not been able to load the initrd yet? I had just a look at all those things... It simply was a question coming into my mind... My kernel never complains about root= bla it only says unable

Re: Sv: Re: Booting from USB with initrd

2005-04-15 Thread Bernhard Schauer
Have you edit the build-initrd.sh script to fit your needs? Does http://featherlinux.berlios.de/usb-instructions.htm or http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0211.1/0551.html help?) Totally different Q's: Have you called syslinux with the correct parameter to find your initrd.gz?

Re: Booting from USB with initrd

2005-04-15 Thread Bernhard Schauer
On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 09:27 +0200, gabriel wrote: > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,0) Hi Gabriel! It looks like initrd.gz could not be mounted. The unknown-block(1,0) is /dev/ram0 (and has normally initrd attached to it) as specified on kernel command

Re: Booting from USB with initrd

2005-04-15 Thread Bernhard Schauer
On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 09:27 +0200, gabriel wrote: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,0) Hi Gabriel! It looks like initrd.gz could not be mounted. The unknown-block(1,0) is /dev/ram0 (and has normally initrd attached to it) as specified on kernel command

Re: Sv: Re: Booting from USB with initrd

2005-04-15 Thread Bernhard Schauer
Have you edit the build-initrd.sh script to fit your needs? Does http://featherlinux.berlios.de/usb-instructions.htm or http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0211.1/0551.html help?) Totally different Q's: Have you called syslinux with the correct parameter to find your initrd.gz?

Re: initrd support in 2.6 kernels

2005-04-14 Thread Bernhard Schauer
> checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (ungzip failed); looks like an > initrd > Freeing initrd memory: 32768K Hi! Have you gzipped your initrd image? (if yes, the ungzip failed would be a problem... btw. initramfs is a smarter way to perform the same) regards - To unsubscribe from this

Re: initrd support in 2.6 kernels

2005-04-14 Thread Bernhard Schauer
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (ungzip failed); looks like an initrd Freeing initrd memory: 32768K Hi! Have you gzipped your initrd image? (if yes, the ungzip failed would be a problem... btw. initramfs is a smarter way to perform the same) regards - To unsubscribe from this

Re: INITRAMFS: junk in compressed archive

2005-03-28 Thread Bernhard Schauer
memory available to the PC should still be enough to hold both systems and also the DOS - Ramdisk in memory. Other Question: is (could) DOS-Ramdisk (be) available to Kernel? Maybe as MTD? regards Bernhard Schauer - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: INITRAMFS: junk in compressed archive

2005-03-28 Thread Bernhard Schauer
should still be enough to hold both systems and also the DOS - Ramdisk in memory. Other Question: is (could) DOS-Ramdisk (be) available to Kernel? Maybe as MTD? regards Bernhard Schauer - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: INITRAMFS: junk in compressed archive

2005-03-25 Thread Bernhard Schauer
other question: Is there any size-limit on initramfs image? I found out that after reducing the image size it is loaded & /init executed as expected... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: INITRAMFS: junk in compressed archive

2005-03-25 Thread Bernhard Schauer
other question: Is there any size-limit on initramfs image? I found out that after reducing the image size it is loaded /init executed as expected... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

INITRAMFS: junk in compressed archive

2005-03-24 Thread Bernhard Schauer
looked at Documentation/early- userspace) Can someone please point me into the right direction? best regards, Bernhard Schauer ACOUSTA - 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://vg

INITRAMFS: junk in compressed archive

2005-03-24 Thread Bernhard Schauer
- userspace) Can someone please point me into the right direction? best regards, Bernhard Schauer ACOUSTA - 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

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-03 Thread Bernhard Schauer
As far as I understand the numbering scheme, the 2.5 kernel leads to 2.6 series. Why not just reactivate the 2.5 kernel (Starting with i.e. 2.5.112 which will lead to 2.6.12)? There will be no change visible to end-users and developers - IMO - are more flexible in any case. (I know I totally

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-03 Thread Bernhard Schauer
As far as I understand the numbering scheme, the 2.5 kernel leads to 2.6 series. Why not just reactivate the 2.5 kernel (Starting with i.e. 2.5.112 which will lead to 2.6.12)? There will be no change visible to end-users and developers - IMO - are more flexible in any case. (I know I totally

[PATCH] ioctl() Syscall number assignment

2005-01-24 Thread Bernhard Schauer
I'd like to "register" some ioctl numbers for driver development. Attached is a patch for ioctl-numbers.txt, as requested in the same file. regards Bernhard Schauer diff -ur ./linux-2.6.10-org/Documentation/ioctl-number.txt ./linux-2.6.10/Documentation/ioctl-number.txt --- ./linux-

[PATCH] ioctl() Syscall number assignment

2005-01-24 Thread Bernhard Schauer
I'd like to register some ioctl numbers for driver development. Attached is a patch for ioctl-numbers.txt, as requested in the same file. regards Bernhard Schauer diff -ur ./linux-2.6.10-org/Documentation/ioctl-number.txt ./linux-2.6.10/Documentation/ioctl-number.txt --- ./linux-2.6.10-org

Re: IBM Patents

2005-01-18 Thread Bernhard Schauer
> And almost all of them are pure software-patents and probably prior art. > Thus they are - at least in Europe - not relevant and actually illegal > if you believe in the current European patent law as defined by the > European Patent Convention (see Â52(2) for details). Hopefully nothing will

Re: IBM Patents

2005-01-18 Thread Bernhard Schauer
And almost all of them are pure software-patents and probably prior art. Thus they are - at least in Europe - not relevant and actually illegal if you believe in the current European patent law as defined by the European Patent Convention (see 52(2) for details). Hopefully nothing will change