From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: Prakash kanthi <pkanthi@yahoo.com>
Cc: LinuxPPC <linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: ramdisk mount problem
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 19:57:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030114185755.297BEC608E@atlas.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Jan 2003 10:42:36 PST." <20030114184236.43688.qmail@web41211.mail.yahoo.com>
In message <20030114184236.43688.qmail@web41211.mail.yahoo.com> you wrote:
>
> I am trying to use 2MB ramdisk image from denx as my
> linux filesystem. Linux kernel fails to mount the
> 'ext2' type file system from initrd. I pin pointed the
> problem.
There are at least two important preconditions:
* You must enable support for ramdisk, initial ramdisk, and ext2
filesystem, in your kernel config
* you must pass "root=/dev/ram rw" (and probably some more) as
kernel boot argument.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-14 18:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-19 16:10 After Uncompresseing Linux..., what's next James Don
2002-12-19 16:39 ` Tom Rini
2002-12-20 16:14 ` Prakash kanthi
2002-12-20 16:32 ` Prakash kanthi
2002-12-20 16:49 ` Jim Potter
2002-12-20 17:02 ` Jim Potter
2002-12-20 16:38 ` Gary Thomas
2002-12-20 16:48 ` Prakash kanthi
2002-12-20 16:52 ` Gary Thomas
2002-12-20 17:06 ` Prakash kanthi
2002-12-20 17:22 ` Gary Thomas
2002-12-20 21:59 ` Serious Problem: " Prakash kanthi
2002-12-20 16:47 ` Jim Potter
2002-12-26 22:47 ` Smallest Initrd (ram disk) Prakash kanthi
2002-12-26 22:55 ` Jim Potter
2003-01-13 2:15 ` Prakash kanthi
2003-01-13 7:55 ` Wolfgang Denk
2003-01-14 18:42 ` ramdisk mount problem Prakash kanthi
2003-01-14 18:57 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2003-01-15 8:33 ` Frederic Soulier
2003-01-16 4:49 ` Ramdisk details; execve("/bin/sh") output Prakash kanthi
2003-01-16 5:57 ` Hi Anish
2003-01-16 8:00 ` Hi Wolfgang Denk
2003-01-16 8:06 ` Ramdisk details; execve("/bin/sh") output Wolfgang Denk
2002-12-27 0:22 ` Smallest Initrd (ram disk) Wolfgang Denk
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