ed, but one thing
> they usually have in common is adding 'nomodeset' to the kernel command
> line.
>
> I think I usually see the changeover to KMS happening later than the
> point right after "loading initial ramdisk", but there's no guarantee
> that that
On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 5:18 PM The Wanderer wrote:
>
> (Is there a reason why the line after the quote and before your new
> text, in both cases where that happened, consisted of a string of 11 tab
> characters instead of being empty? I had to delete the tabs manually in
> order to avoid having it
(Is there a reason why the line after the quote and before your new
text, in both cases where that happened, consisted of a string of 11 tab
characters instead of being empty? I had to delete the tabs manually in
order to avoid having it mess up quoting in this reply.)
On 2021-11-05 at 19:03, Feli
The Wanderer composed on 2021-11-05 18:25 (UTC-0400):
> There's a specific kernel-command-line parameter (on top of 'nomodeset')
> for disabling KMS with certain types of Intel integrated GPU; I don't
> remember it off the top of my head, but I believe it involves the string
> 'i915'.
ernel command
line.
I think I usually see the changeover to KMS happening later than the
point right after "loading initial ramdisk", but there's no guarantee
that that will always be the case, and the symptom seems right.
> Minimal install -- no desktop.
>
> No "oops
Where to start diagnosing a problem like this?
Minimal install -- no desktop.
No "oops" in syslog though there are some warnings.
System seems to shut down properly when power button pressed.
Yesterday I could even ssh in, but that facility disappeared.
Asrock H570M-ITX/ac with Intel i3-10100.
On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 02:25:22PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
> As far as the tmpfs stuff in RAM, it basically disappears when the power
> decays
> (after a not too long delay) and barring some kind of NSA techniques to
> capture it?
Unless (parts of) it have been swapped to disk.
On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 02:25:22PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Friday, July 17, 2020 12:09:05 PM David Wright wrote:
> > On Fri 17 Jul 2020 at 13:22:12 (+0200), Nicolas George wrote:
> > > rhkra...@gmail.com (12020-07-17):
> > […]
> >
> > > > Among other things, should I be worried that
On Friday, July 17, 2020 12:09:05 PM David Wright wrote:
> On Fri 17 Jul 2020 at 13:22:12 (+0200), Nicolas George wrote:
> > rhkra...@gmail.com (12020-07-17):
> […]
>
> > > Among other things, should I be worried that it won't disappear on
> > > power loss / reboot?
> >
> > Depends on what kind o
On Fri 17 Jul 2020 at 13:22:12 (+0200), Nicolas George wrote:
> rhkra...@gmail.com (12020-07-17):
[…]
> > Among other things, should I be worried that it won't disappear on power
> > loss
> > / reboot?
>
> Depends on what kind of disappear you want. If all you want is not to
> have to worry ab
rhkra...@gmail.com (12020-07-17):
> I'm not the op, but, in what sense do you say that?
tmpfs is FILESYSTEM backed in memory. A ramdisk is a kind of DISK, i.e.
a block device, backed in memory and in which you can store a filesystem
if you want.
There are significant differences, like
build this same 4.19. and can not boot cause not loading
> initrd. Correct?
>
> If true is strange because I would not expect to overwrite the current
> image. You sure the build/installed new version is different than the one
> you have?
>
> > Any kernel I compile gets stuc
than the one
you have?
> Any kernel I compile gets stuck on the "loading initial ramdisk"
> stage. It tried it multiple different ways and the result is always
> the same. Any advice on what I can do to find out what's going on,
> would be greatly appreciated
>
d
Tony Fischetti wrote:
> Any kernel I compile gets stuck on the "loading initial ramdisk"
> stage. It tried it multiple different ways and the result is always
> the same. Any advice on what I can do to find out what's going on,
> would be greatly appreciated
>
>
Any kernel I compile gets stuck on the "loading initial ramdisk"
stage. It tried it multiple different ways and the result is always
the same. Any advice on what I can do to find out what's going on,
would be greatly appreciated
More info: I'm using stable. The most recent a
Take a look at Voyage Linux which is based on Debian Live and is
intended for low power/space systems. It runs in read-only mode with
certain dynamic folders running in RAM disks, but can be switched to
read-write mode to make system changes:
http://linux.voyage.hk/
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Did you take a look at this?
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/debirf
I have used it couple of times and I have been able to boot from RAM. The
package is not in current stable version though but you can easily backport
it.
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:43:25PM +0300, Tim Nelson wrote:
> Greetings all-
>
> I've got some questions about Lenny and running from ramdisk. Hoping someone
> can shed some light. ;-)
>
>
> I have a very specific Debian Lenny based system I use for communication
Greetings all-
I've got some questions about Lenny and running from ramdisk. Hoping someone
can shed some light. ;-)
I have a very specific Debian Lenny based system I use for communications
(think VoIP and RS232 serial). This installation is very 'pared down', only the
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 09:57:03AM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> >Setting up linux-image-2.6.14-2-686-smp (2.6.14-6bpo1) ...
> >Running depmod.
> >Finding valid ramdisk creators.
> >Failed to find suitable ramdisk generation tool for kernel version
> >2.6.14-2-686-smp
depmod.
Finding valid ramdisk creators.
Failed to find suitable ramdisk generation tool for kernel version
2.6.14-2-686-smp on running kernel 2.4.27-2-686-smp in mkinitrd.yaird
mkinitramfs
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.14-2-686-smp (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Dell Poweredge 1850 SCSI RAID
Running Sarge 2.4
Backports version of MySQL
Routine running of apt-get update ... upgrade produced this:-
Setting up linux-image-2.6.14-2-686-smp (2.6.14-6bpo1) ...
Running depmod.
Finding valid ramdisk creators
Hello *,
after updating my boot sector running lilo, everything works fine again.
So it seems that during the upgrade the ramdisk was rebuilt which went
unnoticed.
Maybe, in such a case, a warning before the upgrade starts (I have
experienced this several times in other cases) would be
Hello *,
yesterday I upgraded some packages from the admin section (among them
udev, powertweak stuff, init stuff) and today my machine greeted me as
follows:
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
crc error
VFS: cannot open root device "301" or unknown-block(3, 1)
Pleas
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 12:00:04PM +0800, r wrote:
> well i have been having this problem for 1 year. the computer will only
> install windows and not linux ,macintosh?this image contains a linux kernel-i
> think which reconfigures the boot setup. i have partially erased this RAMDISK
well i have been having this problem for 1 year.
the computer will only install windows and not linux ,macintosh?this image
contains a linux kernel-i think which reconfigures the boot setup. i have
partially erased this RAMDISK image but will apreciate any suggestions as
many files are
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 14:52:09 +0100
Torquil Macdonald Sørensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have tried with and without forcing yaird to include the piix and/or
> ide_generic drivers on the ramdisk.
Didn't get a chance to try myself, but you should need the ide_generic and
ide_disk
HTH
Andrei
shell where I can't even type 'ls', and
without access to my hard drive, of course.
I have tried with and without forcing yaird to include the piix and/or
ide_generic drivers on the ramdisk.
This has been discussed here several times since it happened. yaird in
sid is broke
Greetings!
After a linux-kernel-2.6.14-2-686 upgrade a couple of weeks ago
something went wrong with yaird, and it failed to generate a ramdisk.
Thougtless as I was, I forgot to fix the problem before I rebooted, and
my computer was then unbootable.
After that, every attempt I have made to
Hi There,
Can someone please point me in a godd direction to create a ramdisk in
debian sarge?
Thanks
Simon
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How can I transfer the current running system which booted from hda
to a ramdisk and unmount all local filesystems ?
I want to setup a server, which gets its power supply from an UPS,
but this ups can´t tell the machine whether commercial power is
lost/restored,
though a shutdown is not
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 08:14:06AM -0400, Bingjun Ye wrote:
> Hi,
> I just reformated my harddisk, and found there is a compressed ramdrive
> D:\. I cannot remove D:\ using command rd d:\, and cannot setup
> Windows XP with the CD. How do I remove this compressed ramdrive in the
> DOS mode?
W
Hi,
I just reformated my harddisk, and found there is a compressed ramdrive
D:\. I cannot remove D:\ using command rd d:\, and cannot setup
Windows XP with the CD. How do I remove this compressed ramdrive in the
DOS mode?
Thank you!
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> See /var/log/mondo-archive.log for details of backup run.
> Checking sanity of your Linux distribution
> Checking sanity of your Linux distribution
> --- cat /proc/devices | grep ramdisk ---
> end of output
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Checking sanity of your Linux distribution
Checking sanity of your Linux distribution
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Please
Hi am trying to load a network card driver module(e1000) from an
initrd and then configure it at boot time from a DHCP server.
The problem is that the IP-Config bit happens before the RAMDISK is loaded
and executed as shown in the dmesg extract below.
Surfing around I have found other
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 11:38:54AM +0200, Timo Blazko Boewing wrote:
>
> Has anyone of you an idea? When baking my last kernel (2.4.12), I
> somewhere activated "tmpfs", is it that what I may use?
That's what I'm doing. It's like a ram disk that can get swapped out.
It's not too hard to set is u
Hello,
I am using XMMS for playing my ogg/mp3 audio. The thing is that XMMS
very often accesses my hard drive (approx. all three seconds). On my
laptop this is not really wanted...
Thus my idea: why not creating a ramdisk, loading an album to it and
playing from the mounted ramdisk (automatized
on Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 04:31:50PM +, Timo Benk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> if i create a filesystem on a ramdisk for example with
> mke2fs /dev/ram0
> the ramdisk is as big as defined in the kernel.
>
> Is there a way to change this size and create a ram
on Linux dists (each dist in
several versions, old & new) on the market, the only one that would/will install
on this particular box is Caldera (both 2.3 & 2.4) with the help of 'Lisa' the
text-mode installer program. All of the other dists just hang on me, they
freeze when;
&#x
Hi,
if i create a filesystem on a ramdisk for example with
mke2fs /dev/ram0
the ramdisk is as big as defined in the kernel.
Is there a way to change this size and create a ramdisk /dev/ram0
with 16 MB and at the same time /dev/ram1 with 8MB.
Ciao,
Timo<[EMAIL PROTEC
e, they
freeze when;
'loading second stage ramdisk'
or 'reading description files'
in the beginning of the installation process. If at all they manage to shoot
up a message before they die it's something like;
'error loading ramdisk'
'mount failed: Invali
ted :-)
Have you found/read the BootDisk-HOWTO? (http://www.linux.com/howto)
There are two issues here:
- creation of the initrd image
- telling the kernel on boot to create a RAMDISK larger than the default
of 4MB.
It's probably the second bullet you're having problems with. Via LILO
hi!
i'm trying to build a rescue bootcd with a big initrd supporting lots of
hardware. but even with (IMHO) only some modules i have problems staying under a
4MB restriction for the initrd. is there a way around this?
any hints appreciated :-)
Stefan Bunse
when I boot from the CD with my system/bios cache enabled I get the message
"RAMDISK=compressed image found at block 0" during bootstrap.I was wondering
how this can be removed or disabled somewhat not by disabling my system
cache because it slows the computer down greatly. I have
hello,
I was wondering if there was a way of removing the "ramdisk: compressed
image found at block 0" what is it anyway?
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Gary Young wrote:
>
> Some change between the kernel in Debian 2.0
> and in Debian 2.1 fails on something in my
> hardware. I'll look at what hardware is
> in the box next.
>
Hamm uses 2.0.34 while Slink uses 2.0.36 The only obvious difference I
have noticed is that 2.0.36 is able to proble I
Craig H. Block wrote:
> >In attempting to install Debian 2.1 from resc1440
> >floppy onto an HP intel box with SCSI disks that
> >had run Windows-NT, I get the error:
> > "RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0"
> >and the boot stops.
> That is a
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 01:45:46PM -0500, ray wrote:
> Gary Young wrote:
> >
> > In attempting to install Debian 2.1 from resc1440
> > floppy onto an HP intel box with SCSI disks that
> > had run Windows-NT, I get the error:
> > "RAMDISK: Compress
>In attempting to install Debian 2.1 from resc1440
>floppy onto an HP intel box with SCSI disks that
>had run Windows-NT, I get the error:
> "RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0"
>and the boot stops.
>
That is a normal message stating that the kernel has found a
Gary Young wrote:
>
> In attempting to install Debian 2.1 from resc1440
> floppy onto an HP intel box with SCSI disks that
> had run Windows-NT, I get the error:
> "RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0"
> and the boot stops.
>
> Apparently the com
In attempting to install Debian 2.1 from resc1440
floppy onto an HP intel box with SCSI disks that
had run Windows-NT, I get the error:
"RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0"
and the boot stops.
Apparently the computer had a compressed C: drive or
partition when it had win
Hi all,
I've made a boot and root floppies for a ramdisk machine, (ie - not as
a rescue disk but to install working linux on ram).
My problem is that i can't login to the machine, since no user
(including root) is defined. maybe you can help out how to add a user
and a passwd to the
n the system and then says the following and freezes:
>
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
I have installed Debian 1.3 on a simular maskine Just that i "only" had 50 mB
harddrive and 4 Mb memory, I guess that you have to use the lowmemory
installation procedure (as described in the install.txt file).
OK, As a simple test, I took the current RESC1440.BIN
from the hamm distribution, used RAWRITE2.EXE to copy
it to a floppy, dusted off the old 386 and booted
it.
It took about a minute and a half to get to
the "RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0"
message (which is NOT an er
hen says the following and freezes:
>
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Perhaps you have a bad floppy?
FWIW, my firewall system is a 386DX33 with 8megs, so it should work.
Cheers,
- Jim
egs of the hard drive
> are used as an MSDOS partition. The installation goes through detecting items
> on the system and then says the following and freezes:
>
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
>
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I am trying to install debian from a 386SX 16mhz with 5 megs of ram from a
floppy disk drive. It has a 106 meg hard drive. 15 megs of the hard drive
are used as an MSDOS partition. The installation goes through detecting items
on the system and then says the following and freezes:
RAMDISK
hen says the following and freezes:
>
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
>
> any hints on what this means and how I can fix it would be great
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On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 05:34:08PM -0800, Eric House wrote:
> So there's no point in using ramdisks at all for non-boot tasks?
You could use it to build a diskless client, e.g. make an X-terminal out of
an old 486 with enough memory and a decent graphics card.
To use a ramdisk on a runnin
t. Linux
> agressively uses memory as buffer cache already, so you won't get
> better performance this way.
So there's no point in using ramdisks at all for non-boot tasks?
I've read elsewhere that loading a compiler's include files, or
frequently referenced documentation, o
Eric House wrote:
> The HOWTOs talk about ramdisks as part of the install process, but not
> as something I can use every day. Assuming that I *can* have a ramdisk
> on hamm, how do I set it up?
>
The file /usr/src/linux/Documentation/ramdisk.txt contains all the info you
need. If
Eric House <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| The HOWTOs talk about ramdisks as part of the install process, but not
| as something I can use every day. Assuming that I *can* have a ramdisk
| on hamm, how do I set it up?
|
| So far, I've:
| put 'ramdisk=2000' in my /etc/lilo.co
The HOWTOs talk about ramdisks as part of the install process, but not
as something I can use every day. Assuming that I *can* have a ramdisk
on hamm, how do I set it up?
So far, I've:
put 'ramdisk=2000' in my /etc/lilo.conf file (and run lilo). dmesg tells
me that 16 2000K ramdi
> After installing Debian GNU/Linux 2.0, configuring and
> rebooting the system, I get a stream of scrolling LI's
>
> LI
try booting the sytem with a rescue disk. and rerun lilo with -l option.
# lilo -l
(-l forces LILO to generate linear sector addresses)
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After installing Debian GNU/Linux 2.0, configuring and
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LI
LI
LI
LI
LI
and so on...
According to the LILO documentation this means that the second stage
boot loader is loaded but has failed to execute. At first I thought
it might be an issue
I've just installed Debian 2.0 on a Compaq Proliant. Everything seems
to be in order, except for the fact that every time the system is
booted, I get the screen displaying "This is the Debian Rescue disk..."
followed by the "boot:" prompt.
This screen comes up despite the fact that I am booting d
On Sat, Sep 12, 1998 at 11:14:33AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> v) Several other kernel module packages are hooked into
> kernel-package, so one can seamlessly compile, say, pcmcia
> modules at the same time as one compiles a kernel, and be
> assured that the module
Hi,
>>"Bob" == Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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Bob> One advantage I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere is in compiling
Bob> a kernel for installation on another computer,
Thanks. I have now included that in the Rationale. Also, there
is a new facility built in, name
On 12 Sep 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Advantages of using make-kpkg
> -- -- - -
One advantage I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere is in compiling a
kernel for installation on another computer, such as using a fast
machine to compile the k
Hi,
>>"Steve" == Steve Tremblett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Steve> After you do the kernel configuration, it is suggested you do
Steve> 'make dep; make clean' to correctly set up dependencies, and
Steve> clean up old object files so they don't get included. Then I
Steve> usually use 'make zI
Dear Steve,
you are clarity personified.
I'll compile the kernel once I have the ISDN card, since some ISDN
parameters have to be fed in as well (I just found and read the
.../Configuration.help file).
Many thanks,
Remo
| Dr. Remo Badii
e
Iomega parallel port Zip drive - you don't need it. The parallel port
support is 'lp' (descended from 'line printer' I beleive).
> 3) Presently, I also get the message:
>RAMDISK driver: 16 ramdisks of 4096k size.
>I do not know what a ramdisk is (althou
0378, 0278 ...
3) Presently, I also get the message:
RAMDISK driver: 16 ramdisks of 4096k size.
I do not know what a ramdisk is (although I can imagine it): do
I need any of them, is that a compilation option?
I have a 2.1 GB HD, 40 MB ram (probably 64 in the future), and a 40MB
Swap parti
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i have the same problem!!! anyone know what to do about it?
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I'm trying to install Debian on a 386 Dx 40 with 4MB RAM.
When I booted up, it stoped with the system message:
"RAMDISK: COmpressed image found at block 0"
I downloaded the file lmemroot.bin and when I try to boot up it says that it
is an invalid boot disk
WHat should I do?
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I'm trying to install Debian on a 386 Dx 40 with 4MB RAM.
When I booted up, it stoped with the system message:
"RAMDISK: COmpressed image found at block 0"
I downloaded the file lmemroot.bin and when I try to boot up it says that it
is an invalid boot disk
WHat should I
the rescue disk, I get the message:
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> It hanges for ever when this message pops up. Could it be from
> low-memory? I though you were able to run Debian w/4MB RAM. Please
> HELP!
Have you used the "lowmem" series of bootdisks?
I thin
I just setup this experimental system to run Debian 1.3.1:
486SX/25
4MB RAM
CL3424 w/512K
A real POWER-HOUSE!!! I just put this machine together to test Debian
2.0 aka hamm.
Anyways... When I try to boot the rescue disk, I get the message:
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
It hanges
>
> Could you please fix you mailer? When I reply, I don't see
> any text of your message.
Oh, and while you're at it, fix the rest of your mail system too:
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Could you please fix you mailer? When I reply, I don't see
any text of your message.
> I'm sorry to bother you but I need to ask some questions pertaining to
> Linux ramdisk support.
>
[..]
>
> Oct 17 01:18:26 Kernel: end_request:I/O erro
Hi,
I'm sorry to bother you but I need to ask some questions pertaining to
Linux ramdisk support. Most of the information I've found concerns
installation/boot floppy usage but I have a different purpose in mind.
I'm using the Squid Proxy server which generates several log fi
Install the "boot-floppies" package and modify the script that creates
the rescue disk to add the facilities you need.
Bruce
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I'm trying to make a boot disk with lilo and a ramdisk on it, is this
possible?
Also, when I was booting from my first homemade bootdisk+ramdisk I
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On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Gith wrote:
>
>
> Is there any reason I should set the ramdisk size to 0 ?
>
This is the correct value if you don't want to boot up on a ramdisk.
Luck,
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