From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Chris West <chrisw@cristie.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Cannot open ramdisk
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:34:38 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1176244478.8061.55.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1AF14BEE9B355499E146B179F69E9AF152EB6@exchangesrv.cristie.co.uk>
> My ramdisk is a compressed 64MB ext3 filesystem in /ppc/chrp/system
>
> After the kernel has booted I get the following message:
>
> VFS: Cannot open root device "ram0" or unknown-block(1,0)
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
>
> I've read that only uncompressed kernels can load a ramdisk, is this still the case?
> I have tried using an uncompressed kernel with the same results.
>
> Can anyone tell me why my ramdisk isn't being loaded?
Not sure... what is the full kernel log and the messages from yaboot ?
It's possible that your ramdisk is just too big for either yaboot or the
kernel to cope...
Also, the ramdisk should be compressed, is it ?
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-10 22:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-10 11:16 Cannot open ramdisk Chris West
2007-04-10 22:34 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
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2007-04-12 10:37 Chris West
2007-04-12 12:55 ` Milton Miller
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