kernel ramdisk problem

kernel ramdisk problem

[Nick Gawronski]

      Hi, I am trying to make a kernel with speakup witch lets me load
compressed root floppy disks like installation root disks in to a ram disk
like slackware 8.0.  I am using kernel 2.4.10 and have ramdisk, ramdisk
initrd, ext2, msdos, fat, vfat, umsdos, ext2, iso9660 and all of the
standerd stuff in a rescue disk kernel.  My root disk works with the
slackware boot disk but I want to build my own kernel with the speakup cut
and paste features which the slackware boot disk does not have.  When I
boot this kernel and the root device is set on /dev/fd0 it panics with
vfs, unable to mount root fs on 02:00.  What could I be doing wrong to
cause this when the slackware boot disk works but mine does not?  bye

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Re: kernel ramdisk problem

[Raul A. Gallegos]

Nick Gawronski said the following on Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 04:45:31PM -0500:
>       Hi, I am trying to make a kernel with speakup witch lets me load
> compressed root floppy disks like installation root disks in to a ram disk
> like slackware 8.0.  I am using kernel 2.4.10 and have ramdisk, ramdisk
> initrd, ext2, msdos, fat, vfat, umsdos, ext2, iso9660 and all of the
> standerd stuff in a rescue disk kernel.  My root disk works with the
> slackware boot disk but I want to build my own kernel with the speakup cut
> and paste features which the slackware boot disk does not have.  When I
> boot this kernel and the root device is set on /dev/fd0 it panics with
> vfs, unable to mount root fs on 02:00.  What could I be doing wrong to
> cause this when the slackware boot disk works but mine does not?  bye

Did you use the scripts that slackware has to build a boot disk?  Also, 
did you use the old config file that comes with the default kernel?
Try these things in case you have not.

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Re: kernel ramdisk problem

[Nick Gawronski]

Hi, did you mean makebootdisk?  yes I did that and a different kernel
config file and still got the error.  bye On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Raul A.
Gallegos wrote:

> Nick Gawronski said the following on Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 04:45:31PM -0500:
> >       Hi, I am trying to make a kernel with speakup witch lets me load
> > compressed root floppy disks like installation root disks in to a ram disk
> > like slackware 8.0.  I am using kernel 2.4.10 and have ramdisk, ramdisk
> > initrd, ext2, msdos, fat, vfat, umsdos, ext2, iso9660 and all of the
> > standerd stuff in a rescue disk kernel.  My root disk works with the
> > slackware boot disk but I want to build my own kernel with the speakup cut
> > and paste features which the slackware boot disk does not have.  When I
> > boot this kernel and the root device is set on /dev/fd0 it panics with
> > vfs, unable to mount root fs on 02:00.  What could I be doing wrong to
> > cause this when the slackware boot disk works but mine does not?  bye
>
> Did you use the scripts that slackware has to build a boot disk?  Also,
> did you use the old config file that comes with the default kernel?
> Try these things in case you have not.
>
>

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