RE: initrd problem of 2.4.10

David Christensen (David_Christensen@Phoenix.com)
Fri, 12 Oct 2001 10:02:48 -0700


> There is no problem using the initial RAM disk
> (initrd) with kernel 2.4.9
> But with kernel 2.4.10 system reports the following
> messages:
>
> RAMDISK: compressed image found at block 0
> Freeing initrd memory: 1153k freed
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
> Freeing unused kernel (memory: 224k freed)
> Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init=option
> to kernel
>
> When I compile the 2.4.10 The following option is
> supported:
> <*> RAM disk support(128000) Default RAM disk size

This is an unusually large size (128MB). Is your ramdisk
really that large? Try reducing this to a more sane value
(say 4096) and add the "ramdisk=" line to your /etc/lilo.conf
if your ramdisk goes above 4MB.

>
> [*] Initial RAM disk (initrd) support
>
> The version of lilo is 21.6. My lilo.conf is as this:
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> message=/boot/message
> linear
> default=CapitelFW-2.4.9
> image=/hda2/boot/linux-2.4.91
> label=CapitelFW-2.4.9
> initrd=/hda2/root/initrd.gz
> append="root=/dev/ram0 init=linuxrc rw"
> image=/hda2/boot/linux-2.4.10-ac
> label=CapitelFW-ac12
> initrd=/hda2/root/initrd.gz
> append="root=/dev/ram0 init=linuxrc rw"
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