On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Don Elwell wrote: > LinuxBIOS->Etherboot->Linux (single mkelfImage kernel/initrd)
we do this now. > Booting the kernel/initrd via the CD-ROM works great. Booting via > Etherboot doesn't. I get kernel panics indicating that the kernel can't > mount its root fs. can you send the string? I wonder if by some chance etherboot is doing something to IDE that makes it work "correctly" for the kernel in the CD-ROM case. > I also added code in the Linux kernel do_mounts.c file (just after the > "RAMDISK: could not find valid ramdisk image") to print out the first > 512 bytes of the buf buffer. At this point, the values in no way match > the values in the initrd image (nor to those printed out in > convert_params.c). hmm. etherboot problem? What kind of ethernet chip? ron _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

