I'm heavily using initrd and ramdisk for running and installing software
from cdrom.
The boot sequence runs as foolows from a bootable cdrom :
syslinux loads linux and initrd.gz, unpacks linux and initrd and run the
application linuxrc. linuxrc does nothing else than installing either on
harddisk or completely in RAM.
- If I'm installing the software on harddisk, all installation is ok and
I can use the software directly after setting real-root-dev
(e.g. 769 for /dev/hda1 [b 3 1]) unmounting all fs and exiting linuxrc
- If I'm installing the software in ramdisks (several, because of size),
the messages are as follows with 2.2.1 :
"VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)"
"change_root: old root has d_count=1"
"Trying to unmount old root ... okay"
"Freeing unused kernel memory: 40k freed"
"Kernel panic: Noinit found. Try passing init= option to kernel."
And all is over.
I did
- changing the root-ramdisk (/dev/ramX) with changing the value for
real-root-dev
- placed an extra /bin/sh on _every_ ramdisk to see at least a shell
prompt
- replaced (only) the kernel,
- "change_root: old root has d_count=5"
Some more error messages because of that, same last words.
I'm mounting the correct ramdisk as root, because /dev/console is found.
If I'm removing that entry before unmounting the ramdisk, a warning is
displayed when the root ramdisk is mounted again.
I checked on the ramdisk, if there is /sbin/init, /bin/sh and it is before
unmounting.
I'm using ramdisk_size=8192 in the append-line, but don't ask me to
use normal ramdisk size 4096 without a fair chance that this will be the
error.
Regards and TIA
Frank
Frank Bernard
frankb@ipf.de
http://www.linux-firewall.de
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