> Hi, > I want to build a LFS/BLFS system on a USB pendrive. I have a 1GB > pendrive, from which i want to boot through Floppy drive. What i have > now is a LFS system installed on the USB stick. I created a very small > kernel that is about 990K, so that it fits on my floppy :) It has USB > storage drivers and ext2 drivers built in. I installed syslinux on my > floppy, and it does boot the floppy, then i tell syslinux to boot the > small kernel, and load an initrd file. I created this myself so i'm > not sure if i did it right. > This is the part of my syslinux.cfg file: > > KERNEL kern26 > APPEND initrd=initrd.gz root=/dev/ram0 init=/etc/start > > First I didn't had the root=/dev/ram0 item, but it doesn't make any > difference. It also doesn't make any sense if i replace it with > root=/dev/rd/0 as some sites suggest. After the kernel loads, and the > initrd.gz is uncompressed. It gives me the error: > > No filesystem could mount root, tried: > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) > > So what did i do wrong? It should mount the initrd file and start > /etc/start script in the initrd file right? There i've written a > script to mount USB and do the work there. But it seems that the > /etc/start script is never executed because it doesn't mount the > initrd file? > What me confuses is that it didn't try to mount any filesystem, as > there isn't anything after the tried: > > Any ideas? > > Tijnema > > ps. Using the 2.6.20.4 kernel from LFS SVN.
Is the usb stick vfat? If it is, add the driver... I think you could just drop the initrd and boot straight to usb; like APPEND root=/dev/sda1 I can't help more than that, never used syslinux or initrd.. Though I did create a 2-floppy system for building LFS with the livecd, but that's another story.. Anyway it runs solely in ram but using a normal ram disk instead of initrd... Lauri -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
