On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 02:10, Fred Gray wrote: > For various reasons, I would like to set up a 2.4.13-ac4 (Alan Cox's tree) > kernel-image package with the same highly modular structure as Adrian's > > However, when I try to boot this new kernel, the boot fails with the > following messages: > > [...] > RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0 > RAMDISK: Loading 3332 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done. > Freeing initrd memory: 3332k freed > cramfs: wrong magic > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00 > > Can someone offer a suggestion on what might have gone wrong? (Please cc > me on replies, since I'm not subscribed to this list.)
Cramfs has been broken in the main kernel trees for ages and it's only the Debian patch in the kernel-source package that allows it to work. Use romfs and you'll get a smaller initrd (compress the entire image with gzip -9 instead of compressing each file separately), and it'll work with less problems. Use the "genromfs" package to create the romfs. The old version of initrd-tools needed /usr/sbin/mkinitrd to be hacked to get romfs to work, but I think that this has been fixed. -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
