From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Karbaliotis Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 21:03:03 +0000 Subject: Re: initrd testing Message-Id: <40A53407.40101@ualberta.ca> List-Id: References: <20040513202146.GD1098@phunnypharm.org> In-Reply-To: <20040513202146.GD1098@phunnypharm.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org Joshua Kwan wrote: > On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 01:56:25PM -0600, Peter Karbaliotis wrote: > >>I also saw this on a Sun Ultra 2. >> >>Sun Ultra 2 UPA/Sbus (2 x UltraSPARC 200 MHz) >>... >>loaded kernel version 2.4.26 >>Loading initial ramdisk ( 1477684 bytes at 0x01x phys, 0x60800000 virt) >>... >>RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0 >>Freeing initrd memory: 1443k freed >>cramfs: wrong magic >>sh-2021: reiserfs_read_super: can not find reiserfs on ramdisk (1,0) >>kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00 >> Press L1-A to return to the boot prom >> >> >>The 20040511 daily image boots up fine on this system. > > > Erk. That's a _regression_! Not good... Ben, did your patch interfere > with anything that would have made this not work? Also, this is CDROM, > right? Also, did you use a netinst/businesscard image, the > cdrom-mini.iso, or what? > > I tried a boot floppy on my sparc32 box. It seemed to boot OK, but > possibly because SILO is not responible for the initrd for floppy > installs. > cdrom-mini.iso from your daily build. -- Peter.Karbaliotis@ualberta.ca 780-492-7660 Computing and Network Services University of Alberta