Hi, I try to boot linux 2.4.0test8 on my sbc8260 with an initrd. make zImage.initrd generates the appropriate file which I load into my memory. Unfortunately, I get the strange error below... Any ideas??? \Ruedi Starting at 0x400000... CPU/CPM/BUS: 198/132/66 Mhz Ethernet (in decimal): 0:160:30:1:4:5 loaded at: 00400000 0040B274 board data at: 00FFFFC0 00FFFFEC relocated to: 00200100 0020012C zimage at: 0040B274 00480312 initrd at: 00480312 00481408 avail ram: 00482000 01000000 Linux/PPC load: Uncompressing Linux...done. Now booting the kernel Total memory = 16MB; using 0kB for hash table (at 00000000) Linux version 2.4.0-test8 (root@linux01) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991030 (2.95.3 pr erelease/franzo)) #27 Tue Oct 24 15:12:45 CEST 2000 Boot arguments: root=/dev/ram On node 0 totalpages: 4096 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 0 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: root=/dev/ram Warning: real time clock seems stuck! Calibrating delay loop... 131.89 BogoMIPS Memory: 14760k available (884k kernel code, 388k data, 52k init, 0k highmem) Dentry-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 1024) Starting kswapd v1.7 CPM UART driver version 0.01 ttyS00 at 0x0000 is a SMC ttyS01 at 0x0040 is a SMC pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize eth0: SCC ENET Version 0.1, 00:a0:1e:01:04:05 eth1: FCC ENET Version 0.2, 00:a0:1e:41:04:05 fec: Phy @ 0x1, type 0x010fd04b RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 4194300k freed Sending BOOTP requests.... OK IP-Config: Got BOOTP answer from 10.1.20.2, my address is 10.1.20.1 ip_conntrack (128 buckets, 1024 max) kmem_create: Forcing size word alignment - nfs_fh Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00 Rebooting in 180 seconds..