From: vda <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: Joy Almacen <joy@empexis.com>,
wa@almesberger.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: pivot_root and initrd kernel panic woes
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 12:53:05 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01121312530500.01833@manta> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0112130319160.19281-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> <01121311222003.01849@manta>
In-Reply-To: <01121311222003.01849@manta>
On Thursday 13 December 2001 11:22, vda wrote:
> On Thursday 13 December 2001 06:19, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, vda wrote:
> > > BTW, don't go for 2.4x, x>10. initrd is broken there and is still
> > > unfixed.
> >
> > Bullshit.
>
> I have a slackware initrd (minix) which is booting fine with 2.4.10
> but fails to boot with 2.4.12 and later (same .config, same bootloader,
> same hardware, same AC voltage in the wall outlet, time of day differs by
> 1 minute), so it might be true :-)
>
> I have a report of romfs initrd with same symptoms. ext2 initrd OTOH
> boots fine.
You can dl and try to load this minix initrd from
http://port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua/linux/vda/minix.gz
If you can do that, please tell me exact kernel version, what bootloader you
use and send your .config, I'll try it here.
--
vda
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-13 12:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-11 18:50 pivot_root and initrd kernel panic woes Joy Almacen
2001-12-11 21:00 ` Marcel J.E. Mol
2001-12-13 10:09 ` vda
2001-12-13 8:19 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-13 13:22 ` vda
2001-12-13 14:53 ` vda [this message]
2001-12-15 12:14 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-12-15 16:51 ` vda
2001-12-15 17:59 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-12-16 2:32 ` vda
2001-12-16 9:02 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-12-15 16:55 ` vda
2001-12-15 18:03 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-12-13 19:07 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-12-13 18:35 ` Joy Almacen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-12-17 18:38 Torrey Hoffman
2001-12-17 18:44 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-17 19:02 ` Erik Andersen
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