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From: Andrew Dixon <andrew.dixon@seranoa.com>
To: "'linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org'"
	<linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: root=/dev/ram0
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 17:33:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B608CA5.2A774BD9@seranoa.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 01072616453702.25105@sarge


Paul Ruhland wrote:
>
> Andrew,
>
> First make sure you are passing the correct boot args to the kernel:
>
>    root=/dev/ram0
>
> Is this echoed by the kernel during boot?

Yup.

>
> Also, make sure you have 'Second extended filesystem' support
> ('CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y' in .config) compiled into your kernel.
>

I definitely do

> That's really all I can suggest without more information.
>

What other informatin would be useful?  This has got me stumped.  The
ramdisk support in the kernel seems to be working OK.  I booted the
system up with an nfs mounted root partition and did the following:

	#dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram0 bs=1k count=4096
	#dd if=/fs of=/dev/ram0    (fs is my filesystem image)

This went off without a hitch so I tried mounting /dev/ram0:

	#mount /dev/ram0 /mnt

also fine and when I look in /mnt the filesystem looks OK too.

Thanks,
Andy

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-26 21:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-26 20:02 root=/dev/ram0 Andrew Dixon
2001-07-26 20:45 ` root=/dev/ram0 Paul Ruhland
2001-07-26 21:33   ` Andrew Dixon [this message]
2001-07-26 22:13     ` root=/dev/ram0 Rey Estrada
2001-07-27  3:01     ` root=/dev/ram0 Amit D Chaudhary
2001-07-27 12:50       ` root=/dev/ram0 Andrew Dixon
2001-07-27 19:53         ` root=/dev/ram0 Amit D Chaudhary
2001-07-27  6:52 ` root=/dev/ram0 Peter Ryser

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