[2.5.7] initrd issue
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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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 <[email protected]>
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Quoted 3 lines · [email protected] 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.
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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.