Re: Initrd - cramfs image is not being recognized by 2.4.20 kernel

2003-12-18 Thread Raiz_mpx
From: Keith Goettert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Today 11:17:18 >My support of cramfs was complied into the kernel, but it still would >not work.  A very telling sign that it was compiled in was its >complaint >that it couldn't find a valid filesystem in the boot messages (which >according to m

Re: Initrd - cramfs image is not being recognized by 2.4.20 kernel

2003-12-18 Thread Keith Goettert
My support of cramfs was complied into the kernel, but it still would not work.  A very telling sign that it was compiled in was its complaint that it couldn't find a valid filesystem in the boot messages (which according to my readings is also a disputed and unresolved bug/feature.)  Now I hav

Re: Initrd - cramfs image is not being recognized by 2.4.20 kernel

2003-12-18 Thread Antony Gelberg
> On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 21:07, Keith Goettert wrote: >> I have a kernel built from kernel.org source. I have included >> support for ramdisk, initial ramdisk, and cramfs. Is there not a specific patch for this in the Debian kernels? A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: Initrd - cramfs image is not being recognized by 2.4.20 kernel

2003-12-18 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
Hi! On Wed Dec 17, 2003 at 07:07:14PM -0800, Keith Goettert wrote: > I have a kernel built from kernel.org source. I have included support > for ramdisk, initial ramdisk, and cramfs. > > I built a ram disk image using mkinitrd The vanilla linux kernels don't support cramfs. See mkinitrd(8): B

Re: Initrd - cramfs image is not being recognized by 2.4.20 kernel

2003-12-18 Thread Rob Benton
On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 21:07, Keith Goettert wrote: > I have a kernel built from kernel.org source. I have included support > for ramdisk, initial ramdisk, and cramfs. > > I built a ram disk image using mkinitrd > > I can mount the image and list directories and files in it by using > mount -o

Initrd - cramfs image is not being recognized by 2.4.20 kernel

2003-12-17 Thread Keith Goettert
I have a kernel built from kernel.org source.  I have included support for ramdisk, initial ramdisk, and cramfs.   I built a ram disk image using mkinitrd   I can mount the image and list directories and files in it by using mount -o loop rdimage mntpnt   So, it looks like it is functional