-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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, I put syslinux.cfg as follows: - -------------- DEFAULT bzImage noinitrd ramdisk_size=10240 ramdisk_start=0 prompt_ramdisk=1 load_ramdisk=1 root=/dev/ram0 disksize=1.44 prompt 1 timeout 50 - ---------------
kernel boots as usual, however it stops without loading ramdisk floppy saying: - ----------- Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,0) - ----------- This error message makes sense because it hasn't loaded ramdisk image (block(1,0) means /dev/ram0, IMHO). But in my kernel configuration, ramdisk is enabled and the default size is 8192kb. The boot message says the size of ramdisk is 10240kb, so I guess the kernel recognizes kernel options. Then why doesn't prompt for the ramdisk floppy? I've read syslinux is not compatible with kernel 2.6.something in this mailing-list archive, tried with grub and lilo with the same kernel options, but in vain.. so I guess the loader doesn't matter. Thanks in advance! - -- Tetsuji Rai (in Tokyo) aka AF-One (Athlete's Foot-One) Maverick6664 Maverick's Linux http://maverick.trickip.net/ Aviation jokes http://www.geocities.com/tetsuji_rai Profile http://maverick.ns1.name/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCPtjEUJQIBQjS0i0RAm4kAKCF7w1Y7n8i4kTq91r3cfsE0fii2wCdEf+4 c6lBXN1zHcVaE2be1j4jN9w= =xDxL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - 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/
