From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 11:53:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 11:53:30 -0400 Received: from diamondhead.hesbynett.no ([212.33.144.138]:16144 "HELO diamondhead.hesbynett.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 11:53:27 -0400 Message-ID: <1025.213.142.77.114.991508069.squirrel@diamond.no> Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 17:54:29 -0100 (GMT+1) Subject: 2.4.5 VFS/ramdisk changes From: "Ole Andre Vadla Ravnaas" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Reply-To: zole@jblinux.net X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.0.2) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi I'm having trouble with 2.4.5, where 2.4.4 worked fine. The problem is the following: I pass an initrd image to the kernel, which is a compressed image of an ext2 filesystem. The ramdisk size is set at 12 MB (12288 KB). The kernel is passed "root=/dev/rd/0" (using devfs, mounted automatically at boot-time by the kernel), but for some reason it can't find init (results in a kernel panic), this works perfectly with a 2.4.4 kernel. Oh, and btw, this works fine in 2.4.5 if I pass "root=/dev/fd/0 prompt_ramdisk=1" with the initrd image placed on a secondary floppydisk. What went wrong in 2.4.5? Thanks, Ole André Vadla Ravnås