From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: Prakash kanthi Cc: LinuxPPC Subject: Re: ramdisk mount problem From: Wolfgang Denk Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 14 Jan 2003 10:42:36 PST." <20030114184236.43688.qmail@web41211.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 19:57:50 +0100 Message-Id: <20030114185755.297BEC608E@atlas.denx.de> Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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 -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd@denx.de "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/