Re: net4801 vs. grub

Philip Heron <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.hardware.soekris.technical
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 03/08/14 21:07, Andy Michaels wrote:
> I believe I used LILO as the boot loader to avoid this issue.  That
> was a long time ago, though, so YMMV.

I just tried lilo, and it loads the kernel fine it seems to fail on the 
initrd:

Initramfs unpacking failed: junk in compressed archive

It then panics and dies. Googling threw up a few suggestions, adding the 
'large-memory' option in lilo.conf didn't change anything and the only 
other suggestion was the partition containing /boot being too large. 
/dev/sda is a large disk but I'm trying to boot the system of a small 
4GB compact flash card on /dev/sdb.

I currently boot it using grub installed on /dev/sda but I'd like to 
remove that disk at some point.

My lilo.conf is attached. If anyone can suggest something please shout :)

-Phil

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lilo.conf (text/plain, 350 B)
verbose=2

boot=/dev/sdb
map=/boot/map
lba32

install=text
prompt
timeout=50
default=linux
serial=0,19200n8

large-memory

image=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-486
	initrd=/boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-4-486
	root=/dev/sdb1
	append="root=UUID=c76a8538-c16a-432e-a4dc-900a72c668d9 ro console=ttyS0,19200 earlyprint=serial,ttyS0,19200 quiet"
	label=linux
	read-only
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