On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Claude Robitaille wrote:
> Hi there,
>
>
> I am creating rescue disks and I need to use a ramdisk to create my
> root diskette. I am using kernel 2.0.36 and the documentation, in
> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/ramdisk.txt says that the ramdisk
> driver dynamically allocate RAM as needed. It also says that the
> ramdisk_size parameter is not needed anymore.
>
> When I create a ramdisk of, say, 8MB, I am getting IO errors
> when I use it. Also, fsck indicates that the device is 4MB and
> that the super block is wrong at saying that the filesystem has
> 8192 1K blocks. The system has physically 32 MB of RAM.
>
> The ramdisk was created with a dd command specifing 8192 block of
> 1KB each (sucessfully).
>
> What is wrong?
>
Have you made a files system on it (using mke2fs)?
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