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From: "Tetsuji \"Maverick\" Rai" <badtrans666@yahoo.co.jp>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: prompt_ramdisk=1 and load_ramdisk=1 doesn't work with 2.6.11 on floppy
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 23:23:03 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <423ED8C7.1020008@yahoo.co.jp> (raw)

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I am making a small boot-floppy linux distro with kernel 2.6.11.   The
kernel is so big that I need to load ramdisk from the second floppy
and I don't use initrd.   My problem is the kernel wouldn't prompt to
load ramdisk image.  I tried syslinux, grub and lilo as boot loader
and for syslinux, I put syslinux.cfg as follows:
- --------------
DEFAULT bzImage noinitrd ramdisk_size=10240 ramdisk_start=0
prompt_ramdisk=1 load_ramdisk=1 root=/dev/ram0 disksize=1.44
prompt 1
timeout 50
- ---------------

kernel boots as usual, however it stops without loading ramdisk floppy
saying:

- -----------
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
unknown-block(1,0)
- -----------
This error message makes sense because it hasn't loaded ramdisk image
(block(1,0) means /dev/ram0, IMHO).  But in my kernel configuration,
ramdisk is enabled and the default size is 8192kb.  The boot message
says the size of ramdisk is 10240kb, so I guess the kernel recognizes
kernel options.  Then why doesn't prompt for the ramdisk floppy?

I've read syslinux is not compatible with kernel 2.6.something in this
mailing-list archive, tried with grub and lilo with the same kernel
options, but in vain..  so I guess the loader doesn't matter.

Thanks in advance!

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             reply	other threads:[~2005-03-21 14:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-21 14:23 Tetsuji "Maverick" Rai [this message]
2005-03-23  3:47 ` prompt_ramdisk=1 and load_ramdisk=1 doesn't work with 2.6.11 on floppy Andrew Morton

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