[2.5.7] initrd issue

[2.5.7] initrd issue

[Witek Kręcicki]

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. On 2.2 there
was sth. like 'VFS: Mounting initrd..sth...' but there's nothing like that.
What's wrong? I've got initrd, romfs and (optionally) compressed romfs
support compiled-in
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Re: [2.5.7] initrd issue

[Henrik Storner]

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.
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Henrik Storner <henrik@hswn.dk> 

Re: [2.5.7] initrd issue

[Alexander Viro]

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.