Strange bug (?) in 2.4.5
Hi I suspect that I've found a bug in 2.4.5. I use isolinux (1.62) for CD-booting, and its configuration file is like this: default linux display some.msg label linux kernel linux append ramdisk_start=0 ramdisk_size=12288 root=/dev/rd/0 load_ramdisk=1 initrd=initrd The kernel has devfs enabled and is configured to automatically mount /dev on boot. This is what happens: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 3682 k freed VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Mounted devfs on /dev VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). change_root: old root has d_count=5 Mounted devfs on /dev Trying to unmount old root ... okay Freeing unused kernel memory: 96 k freed Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. Okay, this is strange, because I haven't touched the initrd image since the last time it worked. :-) So, what I tried next was replacing the kernel with the 2.4.4 that I had used before (identical kernel configuration), wrote another CD-R, and voila, it worked (I've even repeated this twice (2.4.4 and 2.4.5), same result each time). So, something is definitely wrong. On the other hand, 2.4.5 works fine when booting from floppies (using syslinux) and this configuration: default linux display some.msg label linux kernel linux append ramdisk_start=0 load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1 ramdisk_size=12288 root=/dev/fd/0 Thanks, Ole André Vadla Ravnås - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Strange bug (?) in 2.4.5
Hi I suspect that I've found a bug in 2.4.5. I use isolinux (1.62) for CD-booting, and its configuration file is like this: default linux display some.msg label linux kernel linux append ramdisk_start=0 ramdisk_size=12288 root=/dev/rd/0 load_ramdisk=1 initrd=initrd The kernel has devfs enabled and is configured to automatically mount /dev on boot. This is what happens: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 3682 k freed VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Mounted devfs on /dev VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). change_root: old root has d_count=5 Mounted devfs on /dev Trying to unmount old root ... okay Freeing unused kernel memory: 96 k freed Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. Okay, this is strange, because I haven't touched the initrd image since the last time it worked. :-) So, what I tried next was replacing the kernel with the 2.4.4 that I had used before (identical kernel configuration), wrote another CD-R, and voila, it worked (I've even repeated this twice (2.4.4 and 2.4.5), same result each time). So, something is definitely wrong. On the other hand, 2.4.5 works fine when booting from floppies (using syslinux) and this configuration: default linux display some.msg label linux kernel linux append ramdisk_start=0 load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1 ramdisk_size=12288 root=/dev/fd/0 Thanks, Ole André Vadla Ravnås - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/