John wrote: > These are the 2.4 files: > 2450662 Jul 7 02:33 initrd.gz > 1208 Jul 7 02:33 initrd.list > 3686400 Jul 7 02:33 mini.iso > 811877 Jul 7 02:33 vmlinuz > > This produces numerous modprobe messages that it can't find > /lib/modules/2.4.26-1-386/modules.dep and then stops. > > The corresponding 2.6 kernel doesn't produce those messages: instead it > locks up: > > There's a VFS message it's mounted the root (ext2 filesystem) > Then a VFS message it can't open root device "<NULL>" or unknown-block(8,3) > > and a panic, VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,3) > > I'm PXE-booting. Here's the stanza, the same in each case: > label 4 > kernel images/sarge/vmlinuz > append initrd=images/sarge/net-initrd.gz vga=6
I doubt that it's loading the whole initrd in either case. Pass initrd_size=10000 or so. -- see shy jo
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