Re: Initrd or Cdrom as root

Dead2 (dead2@circlestorm.org)
Wed, 15 May 2002 15:43:03 +0200


> Interesting, so you are saying that the modern BIOSes are already capable
> of booting no-emulation CDs? Last time I tried it (perhaps a year ago)
> some of my Dell machines couldn't do it so I gave up and decided to live
> with the 2.88M limit.
> But if things changed and I should revisit the idea (i.e. if it is now
> possible to have boot images larger than 2.88M in a portable manner) then
> I would like to know.

Indeed it seems like it works on most computers here atleast, and I would
like to explore this way of doing it before boiling out of it just to find
new
problems arising with other ways.

So, I now have a new problem I hope someone can help me out with.
It now mounts the cdrom as root like it should, but then gives me the error:
"Warning: unable to open an initial console."

I have checked everything I can think of, but if someone could point me to
exactly generates this error, I would be forever grateful.

-=Dead2=-

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