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Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 17:33:25 -0400
From: Andrew Dixon <andrew.dixon@seranoa.com>
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Subject: Re: root=/dev/ram0
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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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