On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Jason Verch wrote: > 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... > > 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
How do you format your ramdisk? Formating with minixfs works. You can use gzip after unmounting to compress the image. -- MFG Gernot
