On Wednesday 26 March 2008 10:56:47 Tom Hendrickx wrote: > Hi Eric > > My plan is indeed to load the packages from an ext2 fs .. > So what I did was the following: > > initrd.lrp > > initrd.lrp is a different package - it's a compressed, minix formatted > filesystem. To add or change it's content you have to uncompress it and > mount it on a minix formatted mount point: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=initrd bs=1k count=1500 > mkfs.minix initrd 4096 > mount -t minix initrd /mnt -o loop > > Copy the contents for the initrd package to the /mnt directory: > this is the ext2.o file > > sync > umount /mnt > gzip -9 initrd > mv initrd.gz initrd.lrp > > then when I try to start the machine to see if everything still works I > get this error: > Warning : unable to open an initial console. > Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to Kernel. > > *and everything hangs* > ps: it's still on a fat filesystem .. but that's still inside the > initrd normally so it shouldn't make any difference > > Tom
It looks like you created an nearly empty initrd, only containing ext2.o - that's not enough. Start again, mount an initrd_ide.lrp and _add_ ext2.o to /boot/lib/modules and load it in /boot/etc/modules. kp ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
