Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jan 2002 08:36:20 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: initrd failure on Linux-2.4.17 |
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On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Jeff Chua wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 > > Freeing initrd memory: 581k freed > > kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00 > > > > Has somebody fixed this or is it expected that nobody uses > > an initial RAM disk on 2.4.17 ..or.. is this not the latest > > "stable" version of Linux to use? > > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 > Freeing initrd memory: 5384k freed > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). > Freeing unused kernel memory: 172k freed > > I booted with Linux-2.4.0 up to 2.4.18-pre3. > > Did you specify root=/dev/hda2 in your boot file? >
No. Root is initially /dev/ram0, and will pivot-root to /dev/scd1 once it works. The initial ram-disk, /dev/ram0 is never mounted so that's as far as it gets.
Cheers, Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.1 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.
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