Yup, edited 1/settings.s. Edited and ran 2/bin/buildit.s.
There is a mention on the wiki from Dan Maas about the semantics of
ramfs being different in the 2.4 kernel. Do you think that could be
my problem? I actually tried following Dan's instructions but I couldn't
get it to work (couldn't even build to see if it would boot).
-Jason
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> Did you change the settings.s under 1/ or in the root of the unpack?
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> I think there is a mention in the FAQ that it is the one under 1/ to fix.
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> -Tom
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> On Tue, 22 Jul 103 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > Date: Tue, 22 Jul 103 18:05:23 -0400 (EDT)
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > To: Tom Oehser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [tomsrtbt] can pivot_root work?
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> > Yup. Changed the kernel name in settings.s and changed line
> > 111 in buildit.s to read 'image=$MP/$KERNEL'. I think that should be
> > fine. I suppose I could explicitly say image=$MP/bzImage but I doubt
> > thats it.
> > -Jason
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> > > Did you make the edit at line 111 of buildit.s and in settings.s
> > > to let the boot process know it is dealing with bzImage and a gzip
> > > filesystem, not bz2bzImage and a bzip2 filesystem? -Tom
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> > > On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Jason Verch wrote:
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> > > > Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 15:00:20 -0400 (EDT)
> > > > From: Jason Verch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Subject: Re: [tomsrtbt] can pivot_root work?
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> > > > I got a floppy built with a 2.4 kernel built. I struggled with
> > > > 2.4.20 for a while and just couldn't get it small enough, so
> > > > I switched to 2.4.9 and managed to get 850k or so kernel. I
> > > > also replaced busybox with a version that has pivot_root
> > > > compiled in. buildit.s and install.s worked fine, boots up ok
> > > > for a while, but then I get the same kernel panic. The last
> > > > few things I see are...
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> > > > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 946
> > > > cramfs: wrong magic
> > > > FAT: bogus logical sector size 287
> > > > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00
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> > > > Any ideas? Could the ramdisk somehow not be getting created
> > > > correctly? That would seem to be what the errors are implying,
> > > > but I'm not sure what I might have done wrong. Kernel has minix
> > > > and ramdisk support compiled in.
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> > > > Thanks,
> > > > -Jason
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