Re: PXES panics with devfs and no device files

Try a higher value in ramdisk_size=XXX kernel parameter.

On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 04:29, Sam Johnston wrote:

    Diego et al,
    
    I was about to go hunting in the mailing list archives for information about:
    
    RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
    Freeing initrd memory: 7956k freed
    VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
    Mounted devfs on /dev
    Freeing unused kernel memory: 172k freed
    Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel
    
    errors, but apparently it's 'not yet archived'. Archives are an
    important support tool, so unless there's a good reason for this, maybe
    you could activate it?
    
    Anyway it looks like devfs doesn't work as anticipated, at least not
    when the device files/symlinks in /dev don't exist anyway. I've tried
    various combinations of root=/dev/rd/0, root=/dev/ramdisk/0, creating symlinks,
    etc. but to no avail.
    
    I need to make it work without device files so as the package complies
    with Debian policy, and this is the last thing that's holding me up so
    I'm hoping it's something obvious/simple that I've missed (like a
    symlink in /dev for example). That said, I'll create a device file or
    two if I absolutely have to. I only care about PXE booting but it will
    want to work for other methods too.
    
    Also, setting CONFIG_DEVFS_DEBUG=y in future kernels would most likely
    make problems like this significantly easier to resolve.
    
    Thanks,
    
    Sam
    
    -- 
    Sam Johnston, Director
    Australian Online Solutions
    1300 132 809
    

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