I'm using syslinux-1.50 to roll my own boot/root floppy. So far, I know how to put a kernel on one floppy, rdev it to /dev/fd0, and mount a root fs located on a second floppy. What I would like to do is mount the root fs from a file system image file on the first floppy. I tried to do this, passing the "initrd=initrd.gz" option to the boot loader, and here's what happened:
---------------------------------------------------------------------- RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 VFS: Mounted root (Minix filesystem) [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12, FAT 0, check=n, conv=b, uid=0, gid=0, umask=022, bmap] [me=0x0, cs=0, #f=0, fs=0, fl=0, ds=0, de=0, data=0, se=0, ts=0, ls=0, rc=0, fc=4294967295] Transaction block size 512 [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12, FAT 0, check=n, conv=b, uid=0, gid=0, umask=022, bmap] [me=0x0, cs=0, #f=0, fs=0, fl=0, ds=0, de=0, data=0, se=0, ts=0, ls=0, rc=0, fc=4294967295] Transaction block size 512 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:01 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Notice that the part starting with "[MS-DOS" and ending with "Transaction block size 512" appears twice in a row! What's going on? -chris
