Ok... I saw on the Wiki site that Dan Maas had to use a loopback device when building the floppy on a 2.4.x kernel based system, so I tried to follow Dan's instructions to use /dev/loop0 instead of a ramdisk, but I kept getting errors so obviously I wasn't getting something right... Then I tried building the floppy again on an older system with kernel 2.2.x (using the same static kernel as before for the floppy).
After building the new floppy on the 2.2.x system with no errors, I inserted it again in the IBM x225 and it got to the same place: RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 889. VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER When I press ENTER at this point, I get a kernel panic. I didn't say what happened when I pressed ENTER in the message below, but the same kernel panic was happening then as well. Has anyone else ever seen this problem? I did find one message on Google from a suse mailing list, where a guy is asking the same question as me (in German) but there were no answers to his post... Any and all suggestions are welcome! :) Thanks again, - Todd -----Original Message----- From: Thompson.Todd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 4:38 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [tomsrtbt] ramdisk error Hi, I've searched the list archives, Google, and the Wiki site, but I can't find the answer to my particular problem... (that doesn't mean it's not out there, just that I haven't hit on the right search terms yet...). I downloaded tomsrtbt-2.0.103 and added my own 2.4.20 static kernel, but when I boot it I get: RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 889. VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER My static kernel is stripped of everything except what's needed to support the chip set on this particular machine (an IBM x225), and contains the requirements listed in the FAQ and a few more (ramdisk, minix, loop, floppy support). It is 656003 Kb in size, and contains no module support whatsoever. After my new floppy gave me the above error the first time, I went back into the kernel config and changed the ramdisk default size to 40Mb instead of 4Mb, then I built the floppy again but still no dice. I built the floppy with the following commands (using the instructions in the FAQ as a guide): # ./unpack.s tomsrtbt.raw # cd tomsrtbt-2.0.103.unpacked # cd 1/ # rm bz2bzImage # cp ../../mykernelimage bz2bzImage # chmod 755 bz2bzImage (don't know if this is necessary) # cd ../ # ./buildit.s It builds without errors. Then I cd into the new directory it created and type ./install.s. It formats my blank floppy and installs without errors. Any ideas? Many Thanks, - Todd
