On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 08:22:52PM +0100, Simon Vallet wrote: > On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 19:22:59 +0100 > Simon Vallet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 12:39:07 -0500 > > Patrick Finnegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > root=/dev/ram is probably what you wanted. > > Thanks for your answer... initrd images get me rapidly lost :-) > > > > But... the kernel panics with a > > VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00 > OK, I'm coming a little further : root=/dev/ram0 does the trick. > However, the initrd seems to be bad: I get the following message: > EXT2-fs error (device ramdisk (1,0)): > ext2_check page: bad entry in directory #2: rec_len is smaller than > minimal - offset=0, inode=0, rec_len=0, name_len=0 > Warning: unable to open an initial console > Kernel panic: no init found > > I still have other initrds to try... maybe they will work ? > Thanks again,
Don't forget devfs=mount option, as devfs is needed for debian-installer, but we don't want it on the final system. BTW, which vmlinux+initrd are you talking about ? Where did you get them ? Friendly, Sven Luther
