Re: loading the initrd

2002-12-12 Thread Richard Hirst
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 03:47:58PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 10:14:03PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > This is something of a shot in the dark, but try using a filesystem that > > is not cramfs. I vaguely remember some problems along these lines being > > due to cramfs,

Re: loading the initrd

2002-12-12 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 10:14:03PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > This is something of a shot in the dark, but try using a filesystem that > is not cramfs. I vaguely remember some problems along these lines being > due to cramfs, maybe its use is not supported on a second floppy. Luser error. I was

Re: loading the initrd

2002-12-12 Thread Joey Hess
Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > I've got images building on Alpha, but I can't seem to get the kernel to > load the initrd from the second floppy. (The kernel+initrd are about > 600k too big for a single floppy.) > > I've tried various combinations of parameters to the kernel. If I pass > "root=/dev/

Re: loading the initrd

2002-12-12 Thread Alexander Kotelnikov
> On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:28:32 +0100 > "ML" == Mario Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ML> ML> "Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I've got images building on Alpha, but I can't seem to get the kernel to >> load the initrd from the second floppy. (The kernel+initrd are about

Re: loading the initrd

2002-12-12 Thread Mario Lang
"Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've got images building on Alpha, but I can't seem to get the kernel to > load the initrd from the second floppy. (The kernel+initrd are about > 600k too big for a single floppy.) > > I've tried various combinations of parameters to the kernel.

loading the initrd

2002-12-11 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
I've got images building on Alpha, but I can't seem to get the kernel to load the initrd from the second floppy. (The kernel+initrd are about 600k too big for a single floppy.) I've tried various combinations of parameters to the kernel. If I pass "root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1", which is what bo