From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Sat, 15 Jan 2005 01:59:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net ([IPv6:::ffff:204.127.198.39]:50834 "EHLO rwcrmhc13.comcast.net") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 01:59:05 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.4] (pcp05077810pcs.waldrf01.md.comcast.net[68.54.246.193]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2005011501585801500d6264e>; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 01:58:59 +0000 Message-ID: <41E87A18.8090807@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 21:04:08 -0500 From: Kumba User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org CC: moreau francis Subject: Re: initrd support. References: <20050114091715.47318.qmail@web25107.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <20050114154147.GM31149@rembrandt.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> In-Reply-To: <20050114154147.GM31149@rembrandt.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 6922 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: kumba@gentoo.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > Actually, there are three: > - the generic initramfs method for compiled in initrds Is there any docs for this floating around outside of the blurb on the LMO wiki? Doing a few tests with this, I was unable to get a kernel to see the ramdisk. Despite there being an initramfs built into the kernel, there were no "RAMDISK: Compressed ramdisk found at block 0" messages, or no "checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd" messages that I've commonly seen with built-in ramdisks. I figure in the end, either the problem is PEBKAC, invalid kernel command line params (root=/dev/ram0?), or broken code. --Kumba -- "Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere." --Elrond