Re: can pivot_root work?

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Jason Verch wrote:
> I got a floppy built with a 2.4 kernel built. I struggled with
> 2.4.20 for a while and just couldn't get it small enough, so
> I switched to 2.4.9 and managed to get 850k or so kernel. I
> also replaced busybox with a version that has pivot_root
> compiled in. buildit.s and install.s worked fine, boots up ok
> for a while, but then I get the same kernel panic. The last
> few things I see are...
> 
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 946
> cramfs: wrong magic
> FAT: bogus logical sector size 287
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00

How do you format your ramdisk?
Formating with minixfs works.
You can use gzip after unmounting to compress the image.

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MFG Gernot