Hi Andrea, the kernel I used is here: http://www.mytempdir.com/1297554
Actually I tried also without root= and got the same message (only the device numbers were different, I think). I guess renaming /linuxrc to /init might help. Will do some experiments but need to set up the environment again. Regards, Erich On Monday 16 April 2007 15:51, Andrea Righi wrote: > Erich Focht wrote: > >> Moreover, what kind of failures have you found exactly with cpio initrd? > >> in my tests it worked very well with a suse10.0. > > > > The usual > > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on > > unknown-block(1,0) > > > > Didn't manage to boot any UYOK on my openSUSE 10.2. Worked with minix. I > > have > > the feeling that this could be a problem of the "linuxrc", but will play > > more > > with it to find the issue. Minix should just be a temporary workaround. > > > > With a cpio initrd the kernel should automatically detect the rootfs, > checking if one of the available devices contains the file "/init", and > if so it executes it. So there's no need to specify the root= option. In > perspective this parameter should be deprecated, but you shouldn't have > problems if you define it. Anyway, could you try to remove it from your > syslinux.cfg? moreover, could you post your kernel in a place available > from web? I'm just curious to see how the kernel panics... > > Thanks, > -Andrea > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ sisuite-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-devel
