I was playing around on the weekend with kernels and I decided to try to run devfs and use initrd during the boot process. It didn't work, and I'm left wondering why. It's not overly critical, but I hate it when I can't figure out why it doesn't work.
Has anyone run into similar problems or gotten this combination to work on a 2.4.20 kernel? The kernel source isn't vanilla, though. It's a debian kernel source package with lowlatency and preempt patches (which shouldn't affect things at boot up.) The kernel boots fine, but panics when it can't mount the root partition (ext3, hda2) to run /sbin/init. Support for ext3 is compiled in, and works fine as long as I'm not using initrd. I've looked through /linuxrc on the initrd image, and nothing strikes me as wrong, but this is the first time I've looked at it. Comments? Pointers? --- -
