Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 15 Dec 2001 07:58:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 15 Dec 2001 07:58:08 -0500 Received: from [195.66.192.167] ([195.66.192.167]:23560 "EHLO Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 15 Dec 2001 07:58:02 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: vda To: Mike Galbraith Subject: Re: pivot_root and initrd kernel panic woes Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 14:55:35 -0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: Alexander Viro , Joy Almacen , , , "Stephen C. Tweedie" In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01121514553501.01834@manta> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 15 December 2001 10:14, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, vda wrote: > > On Thursday 13 December 2001 06:19, Alexander Viro wrote: > > > On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, vda wrote: > > > > BTW, don't go for 2.4x, x>10. initrd is broken there and is still > > > > unfixed. > > > > > > Bullshit. > > > > I have a slackware initrd (minix) which is booting fine with 2.4.10 > > but fails to boot with 2.4.12 and later (same .config, same bootloader, > > same hardware, same AC voltage in the wall outlet, time of day differs by > > 1 minute), so it might be true :-) > > Hmm.. works here with 2.5.1-pre8. > > -Mike > ... > RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 12288K size 1024 blocksize > ... > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 > Freeing initrd memory: 5161k freed > MINIX-fs: mounting unchecked file system, running fsck is recommended. > VFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem). > Freeing unused kernel memory: 236k freed Have you tried it with minix initrd from http://port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua/linux/vda/minix.gz (slackware install initrd, should load up to login prompt stage, does not touch hd) or with some other one? -- vda - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/