Re: Can't get 'initrd' to load from lilo

Gabor Kuti (ksx@sch.bme.hu)
Fri, 8 Jan 1999 23:53:09 +0100 (MET)

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> Hi All,
>
> I don't think this is a kernel problem, but I can't get lilo
> to load an initial ramdisk. Is there any known problem which
> I'm missing?
>
> I've got 'initrd=/boot/initrd' in the lilo.conf (and using
> lilo-20) but the ram disk is never loaded.
>
> I haven't used ramdisks prior, but I believe that lilo should
> load it before the kernel? (I'm using 2.2.0-pre5)
hmmm.. afaik, you should also pass 'root=/dev/ram' as an option..

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