Yes, I took a bzImage and renamed it bz2bzImage -- so that I
wouldn't have to edit buildit.s.
Sounds dumb (now), but I was just following the suggestion in
the wiki page "ReplaceTheKernel". That page says that
you can rename the image or modify the script; it seemed
safer to rename the image. Of course it talks about
"zImage" versus "bzImage" and doesn't mention "bz2" ...
I guess that should have been a clue.
Keeping the image name as bzImage and modifying 2/usr/bin/buildit.s
(and 1/settings.s, for good measure) did the trick.
Thanks for the quick response.
On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 09:58:59AM -0400, Tom Oehser wrote:
>
> Did you call it bzImage or bz2bzImage? Two things:
>
> First, The build script is supposed to detect the difference and use
> gzip instead of bzip2 for the ramdisk if you use a bzImage kernel
> instead of a bz2bzImage kernel. Your bzImage kernel does not support
> the bzip2 ramdisk format used by the bz2bzImage kernel, so if you
> call the kernel bz2bzImage, but it isn't really, it will fail.
>
> Second, I've never tested the bzImage/bz2bzImage=>bzip2/gzip logic
> in buildit.s, so, assuming you called it bzImage, there may be bugs.
>
> -Tom
>
> On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Dave_Hein wrote:
>
> > Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 23:38:42 -0500
> > From: Dave_Hein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [tomsrtbt] trouble with RAMDISK after replacing kernel
> >
> > I created a new tomsrtbt with a different kernel and am getting this error message:
> >
> > RAMDISK: couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 867.
> >
> > I built 2.4.18 kernel with support for RAMDISK and MINIX, plus as few other
>devices as I could get away with. I then unpacked the distribution
>(tomsrtbt-2.0.103), replaced the kernel, built the new distribution, and installed it
>on a floppy. Booting from that floppy fails with the error message above.
> >
> > I don't think I did anything wrong, but perhaps I missed a step somewhere?
> >
> > If anyone has seen and solved this problem, please pass on the solution. Thanks.
> >
> > --
> > Dave Hein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
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