Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 06 Dec 1999 18:32:15 -0500 | From | Richard Dynes <> | Subject | Re: Root fs and ramdisk |
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Jonathan Brauer wrote: > wondering how to get the kernel to recognize a ramdisk at a specific location > and to mount this as the root device. >
I'll assume you want to use lilo?
Read the Bootdisk HOWTO in /usr/doc/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO. Read /usr/doc/lilo-0.21/doc/*.
> Do I need to use initrd? > How do I specify through the command line to use the disk and the like. >
You need initrd iff your kernel image is too large, generally because of included drivers, SCSI being the most often reason in my experience. Initrd is used in a two stage boot for this case. I generally don't need an initrd.
> I have tried various messages to kernel, but all result in a panic saying it can > not mount root device 00:00 >
00:00 is the major/minor numbers that the loader is trying to access. They are obviously wrong. You will see 02:1c for fd0H1440, for example. This indicates that neither rdev or lilo has been used to install this information into the MBR.
-Richard
-- Richard Dynes rdynes@varcom.com
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