Re: [2.5.7] initrd issue

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Thu, 21 Mar 2002 17:35:12 -0500 (EST)


On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Henrik Storner wrote:

> adasi@kernel.pl wrote:
>
> >I was trying to use 2.5.7 with initrd. I checked almost all configuration
> >options, but it's still loading RAM-Disk in one line (ext2 filesystem
> >detected etc.) and 'freeing Xkb initrd memory' in the next one.
>
> You are not alone. AFAICT, initrd is broken in 2.5.x - it fails
> to mount to ramdisk unless you pass "root=/dev/ram0", and if you
> do that, then it fails to switch to the real root-disk once
> /linuxrc has executed from the ramdisk. At least, that was my
> experience when trying it in 2.5.6 and 2.5.7.
>
> The very same initrd-file worked fine with 2.4.18.

Mind sending your .config to me? Last time I've checked it the thing
had worked, but that was around 2.5.4 or so.

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