Hi Im trying to boot an encrypted file system using an initrd on a USB. I use syslinux for the actual boot process as I couldnt get Grub to boot of it for some reason. This is the .cfg
default vmlinuz timeout 100 prompt 1 label linux kernel vmlinuz append initrd=/initrd.gz root=/dev/ram0 rootfstype=minix init=/linuxrc As far as I can tell this should load the initrd but that never happens. Everything seems to boot fine. Syslinux loads the kernel and I get to the point where initrd should be mounted only to get this error. Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,0) followed by the USB information and stop. <5> Vendor SWISSBIT Mode: Victorinox 2.0 Rev 2.00 Type Direct-Access ANSI SCSI Revision: 02 SCSI device sdb: 1022720 512 byte hdwr sectors (524mb) sdb: Write Protect is off sdb: asuming driver cache: write-through I have support for minix, vfat, ext2 and ext3 in the kernel. I have recompiled the kernel like 20 times to test different things. So what Im thinking is that the USB device doesn't get realized before syslinux tries to load it? Oh I do have the ramdisk in the kernel and everything. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
