I want to know where can get the "instructions of Bernd Stahlbock
on his method of booting from a flashdisk using initrd and
a ram drive"
Thank you and sorry for disturbing you
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From: "Troy Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 1:47 AM
Subject: [rtl] Booting from flash disk
> Hello-
> I am following the instructions of Bernd Stahlbock on his method of booting
> from a flashdisk using initrd and a ram drive. Everything works fine up
> until just after the partion check on boot:
>
> Partition check:
> sda: sda1
> hda: hda1
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12.FAT 0,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap]
> [me=0x0,cs=0,#f=0,fs=0,fl=0,ds=0,de=0,data=0,se=0,ts=0,ls=0,rc=0,fc=42949672
> 95]
> Transaction block size = 512
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00
>
> I have initrd and ramdisk support compiled into the kernel.
> I've never used initrd before, so I don't know if it is working correctly.
> My flashdisk is formatted as e2fs and only contains a boot directory and
> initrd.img.gz. One thing I could not do in following Bernd's instructions
> is to use gzip to compress my file structure image. I got errors stating
> all of my devices in /dev were not 'a directory or a regular file -
> ignored'. I used tar czf but I'm not sure that this will work.
> Is this error a file system error? Or initrd?
>
>
> Troy Davis
> Airborne Data Systems, Inc.
>
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