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Kurt Huwig wrote: | Hi! | | Using Woody and a vanilla 2.4.20, I cannot boot with an initial ramdisk. | The kernel was built by | | make-kpkg --initrd --config menuconfig --append-to-version -fwrs | kernel_image | | I tried both lilo: | | image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-fwrs | label=linux | read-only | initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.4.20-fwrs | | and grub | | kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-fwrs root=/dev/hda2 ro | initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.4.20-fwrs | | but with the same effect: | | RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0. | Freeing initrd memory: 860k freed | cramfs: wrong magic | | Booting the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel from the distribution works fine. | | The following options were used when building the kernel: | | - Loopback device support | - RAM disk support (4096 Default RAM disk size) | - Initial RAM disk (initrd) support | - Compressed ROM file system support | - ROM file system support | | After booting the kernel | | mount -o loop /boot/initrd.img-2.4.20-fwrs /mnt | | works fine without any additional modules being loaded.
Ok, I found it. I needed the 'kernel-patch-initrd-cramfs'.
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