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From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Joy Almacen <joy@empexis.com>
Cc: wa@almesberger.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: pivot_root and initrd kernel panic woes
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 19:07:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011213190750.A4460@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C165586.457A26F0@empexis.com>
In-Reply-To: <3C165586.457A26F0@empexis.com>; from joy@empexis.com on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 01:50:46PM -0500

Hi,

On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 01:50:46PM -0500, Joy Almacen wrote:

> After which I added this line  my  /etc/lilo.conf file:
> 
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.9-12smp
>         label=2.4.9smp
>         append="initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.9-12smp.img root=/dev/ram0
> init=/linuxrc rw"

That's your problem.  You need to specify your real root device in the
"root=" section; for example, mine looks like

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.9-13
	label=linux
	initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.9-13.img
	read-only
	root=/dev/md1

The initrd magic happens before the real root gets loaded: you don't
need to point root to /dev/ram0 to get a ramdisk.

Cheers, 
 Stephen

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-12-13 19:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-11 18:50 pivot_root and initrd kernel panic woes Joy Almacen
2001-12-11 21:00 ` Marcel J.E. Mol
2001-12-13 10:09 ` vda
2001-12-13  8:19   ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-13 13:22     ` vda
2001-12-13 14:53       ` vda
2001-12-15 12:14       ` Mike Galbraith
2001-12-15 16:51         ` vda
2001-12-15 17:59           ` Mike Galbraith
2001-12-16  2:32             ` vda
2001-12-16  9:02               ` Mike Galbraith
2001-12-15 16:55         ` vda
2001-12-15 18:03           ` Mike Galbraith
2001-12-13 19:07 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
2001-12-13 18:35   ` Joy Almacen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-12-17 18:38 Torrey Hoffman
2001-12-17 18:44 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-17 19:02 ` Erik Andersen

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