Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 07:01:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 07:01:48 -0500 Received: from delrom.ro ([193.231.234.28]:26573 "EHLO delrom.ro") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 07:01:32 -0500 Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 14:02:08 +0200 From: Silviu Marin-Caea To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Ramdisk doesn't work well in 2.4.17 Message-Id: <20020116140208.0636e00d.silviu@delrom.ro> In-Reply-To: <20020115162647.35f57d4f.silviu@delrom.ro> In-Reply-To: <20020115162647.35f57d4f.silviu@delrom.ro> Organization: Delta Romania X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Multipart_Wed__16_Jan_2002_14:02:08_+0200_085e2460" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Multipart_Wed__16_Jan_2002_14:02:08_+0200_085e2460 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 16:26:47 +0200 Silviu Marin-Caea wrote: Thanks to all who answered. To Andrew Morton: unfortunately, the patch doesn't fix it for me. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.18pre2aa2/00_ramdisk-buffercache-2 This is what I do: compile a kernel with the attached .config Notes about configuration: * Loopback device support * Network block device support * RAM disk support with a default size of 40960 (that's not an error) disk size* Initial RAM disk initrd support * No Kernel module loader Tried kernel versions: 2.4.17, 2.4.18pre1 with the above patch, 2.4.18pre3 and pre4 Then: rdev bzImage /dev/fd0 && rdev -r bzImage 49152 && rdev -R bzImage 0 dd if=bzImage of=/dev/fd0 Using this rootdisk: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/partimage/partimage-0.6.1-i386-rootdisk-1.raw I also tried with a modified version that uses a regular init, not busybox. This happens: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 ... VFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem). Freeing unused kernel memory: 204k freed Kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. > The root disk is good, because I have built a 2.4.9 in a similar > fashion, and it works with it. The problem is I need NTFS support, > and that doesn't compile in 2.4.9. -- Silviu Marin-Caea - Network & Systems Administrator - Delta Romania Phone +4093-267961 --Multipart_Wed__16_Jan_2002_14:02:08_+0200_085e2460 Content-Type: application/x-gzip; name="kernelconfig.gz" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="kernelconfig.gz" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 H4sICPNlRTwCA2tlcm5lbGNvbmZpZwCVW99z4jgSft+/wrXzcDNVO7X8CoGrmgchy6BgW4olA8mL i0mcGWoI5AjsXf77a9sh2FgtMw+7mej71GpJre5Wy/n0xyeHHPbb5+V+9bBcr9+cH+km3S336aPz /c15Xv5Kned0c3jYbp5WP/7tPG43/9o76eNq/8enP6gIPT5OFoP+t7fjL1wR+OWT8/6rGsXKWb06 m+3eeU33R1bM3XbWCYQAdfsIgyz3h91q/+as03/StbN92a+2m9fTIGwhWcQDFmriHzv62+Xj8vsa Om8fD/Dj9fDyst3tC6FFt0C4sc8qKuSw3G0f0tfX7c7Zv72kznLz6DylmQrpa6V7d9Av9z0BPQy4 sgBaURQLgoUZ62MCJSwGjwPOuRXvmdFp37AvwfS6vHsBjWIlmFnAnId0wiXtW+GOFe26ZpjeRXxx NrGTtSVzmcxFNFWJmJ4sLwN4OPPluNpGA7mgk7PGBXHdastIzYmsNkkhiVuM8aFaNFcsSMYsBGuk iZI89AWdGvQsiNnIMFRC/LGIuJ4E1RH8dkIJnbBETbinv/XLGBhLlTwWAgRJftYcK5Z03VDMz5Qf 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