Re: cant build ramdisk :-(

Bryn Paul Arnold Jones (bpaj@gytha.demon.co.uk)
Sat, 3 Aug 1996 23:49:03 +0100 (BST)

On Sat, 3 Aug 1996, Herbert Rosmanith wrote:
>
> damnit, I compiled the system without ramdisk-support !
>
> could you please add some kind of warning in this case, like
> "ramdisk needed but no ramdisk driver" ? would have saved me
> quite a time searching for the error ....
>
> /herp
>
No sooner said than done:

--- linux/fs/super.c.orig Sat Aug 3 23:35:50 1996
+++ linux/fs/super.c Sat Aug 3 23:46:18 1996
@@ -967,6 +967,9 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD
if (MAJOR(ROOT_DEV) == FLOPPY_MAJOR) {
floppy_eject();
+#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM
+ printk(KERN_NOTICE "(Warning, this kernel has no ramdisk support)\n");
+#endif
printk(KERN_NOTICE "VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER\n");
wait_for_keypress();
}

Bryn

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