Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:35:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:35:31 -0500 Received: from chaos.analogic.com ([204.178.40.224]:1408 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:34:51 -0500 Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:34:51 -0500 (EST) From: "Richard B. Johnson" Reply-To: root@chaos.analogic.com To: Linux kernel Subject: initrd failure on Linux-2.4.17 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greetings, I am still trying to get linux-2.4.17 (the last stable version) to boot using initrd. I have hand copied the kernel messages and they follow: Based upon Swansea Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized Detected PS/2 Mouse Port pty: 256 Unix/98 ptys configured block: 128 slots per queue, batch=32 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 loop: loaded (max 8 devices) Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann agpgart: Maximumm main memory to use for agp memory: 262M agpgart: Detected Intel 440BX chipset agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe4000000 NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32767 bind 32768) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 581k freed kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00 Note that the compressed image was found, but Linux promptly freed initrd memory, which should surely make it "un-found". Then, true to form, the ramdisk image can't be mounted as the root file-system. Has somebody fixed this or is it expected that nobody uses an initial RAM disk on 2.4.17 ..or.. is this not the latest "stable" version of Linux to use? Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.1 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips). I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any. - 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/