also, I assume you checked the obvious, i.e. whether size 24000 is valid.
try booting with ramdisk_size=16384 to verify (it should work, I use it
all the time).
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
>
> > > On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> > > > # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM is not set
> > > > # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD is not set
> > >
> > > enable CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM and /dev/ram* will become useable. If you also
> > > use initrd then enable CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD as well.
> >
> > sorry - wrong .config-file. I thought the one I sent was identical to the
> > one I used.
>
> no, there must be yet another (3rd) .config file that was _actually_ used
> for the kernel that you booted, because your /proc/devices didn't show the
> ramdisk registered on major 1. Or did you use /proc/devices from some
> other machine too? :)
>
> Regards
> Tigran
>
>
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