Re: [2.5.7] initrd issue

Henrik Storner (henrik@hswn.dk)
Thu, 21 Mar 2002 22:49:57 +0100


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.

-- 
Henrik Storner <henrik@hswn.dk> 

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