From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [210.8.246.199] (helo=singularity.tronunltd.com) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 16dHzs-0000oJ-00 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 21:40:24 +0000 Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 07:50:44 +1000 Message-Id: <200202192150.HAA24884@singularity.tronunltd.com> To: "Chris Fowler" Subject: Re:Kerlen 2.4.13 and ramdisks From: "Ian" Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Reply-To: "Ian" Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: If you have loopback support compiled in you can mount it directly through the loopback driver, without creating a ramdisk ... What was the error that mount gave? You probably only need to specify the "-o" parameter ... mount doesn't usually detect fancy filesystems ... ----- Original Message ----- >From: "Chris Fowler" >To: >Subject: Kerlen 2.4.13 and ramdisks >Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 10:33:33 -0500 > > You guys might have ran across a ramdisk problem. I have a feeling that kernel 2.4.13 is not respecting my ramdisks. > > > dd if=/etc/user.img of=/dev/ram6 > > mount /dev/ram6 fails. > > > Is this a problem? > > > > > > ______________________________________________________ > Linux MTD discussion mailing list > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-mtd/ >