From: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
To: Andrew Walrond <andrew@walrond.org>
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: (Sparc64) 2.6.20 seems to ignore initramfs
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:32:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45DEECEE.6070108@wpkg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200702231108.10185.andrew@walrond.org>
Andrew Walrond schrieb:
> On a Sun T1000 I am trying to boot 2.6.20 using initramfs. (I use the same
> procedure successfully on x86_64 and itanium2 servers).
>
> The relevent silo section looks like this:
>
> image=/boot/2.6.20.image
> label=2.6.20
> initrd=/boot/2.6.20.initramfs
> partition=2
> read-only
>
> The kernel loads and boots and I see
>
(...)
>
> So it knows about the initramfs, but then tries to mount a root filesystem
> instead...
>
> I haven't tried this (initramfs) with earlier kernels, so I don't know
> whether this is a regression. Any clues about how to solve this would be
> greatly appreciated.
Does it make a difference if you embed initramfs directly in the kernel?
CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE="/path/to/your/initramfs/directory"
--
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-23 13:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-23 11:08 (Sparc64) 2.6.20 seems to ignore initramfs Andrew Walrond
2007-02-23 13:32 ` Tomasz Chmielewski [this message]
2007-02-23 14:46 ` Andrew Walrond
2007-02-23 15:17 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2007-02-23 15:47 ` Andrew Walrond
2007-02-24 15:23 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-02-24 16:35 ` Andrew Walrond
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