RE: initrd problem of 2.4.10

[David Christensen]

> 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"