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Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 19:07:50 +0000
From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Joy Almacen <joy@empexis.com>
Cc: wa@almesberger.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: pivot_root and initrd kernel panic woes
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In-Reply-To: <3C165586.457A26F0@empexis.com>; from joy@empexis.com on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 01:50:46PM -0500
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Hi,

On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 01:50:46PM -0500, Joy Almacen wrote:

> After which I added this line  my  /etc/lilo.conf file:
> 
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.9-12smp
>         label=2.4.9smp
>         append="initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.9-12smp.img root=/dev/ram0
> init=/linuxrc rw"

That's your problem.  You need to specify your real root device in the
"root=" section; for example, mine looks like

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.9-13
	label=linux
	initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.9-13.img
	read-only
	root=/dev/md1

The initrd magic happens before the real root gets loaded: you don't
need to point root to /dev/ram0 to get a ramdisk.

Cheers, 
 Stephen
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