[zorp] Kernel Initrd

Balazs Scheidler zorp@lists.balabit.hu
Mon, 23 Aug 2004 12:51:22 +0200


On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 09:12, KOVACS Krisztian wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
> 2004-08-21, szo keltezéssel 00:59-kor Phil Moors ezt írta:
> > Whenever I install one of you kernels however, I get this on boot:
> > 
> > RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0
> > RAMDISK: Loading 2116 blocks [1 disk] into ramdisk... done.
> > Freeing initrd memory: 2116k freed
> > sh-2021: reiserfs_read_super: cannot find reiserfs on ramdisk(1,0)
> > Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount rootfs on 03:02
> 
>   Unfortunately our kernels do not contain the patch which enables to
> use CRAMFS filesystems as initrd. The mkinitrd package in Debian Woody
> is configured to create CRAMFS images by default, so unless you change
> the /etc/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.conf config file. You have to add/change the
> line to that file:
> 
> # Command to generate the initrd image.
> MKIMAGE='genromfs -d %s -f %s > /dev/null'

Yes, Krisztian is definitely right, I've missed this step in my original
post as our install program does this automatically.

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Bazsi