Sv: Re: Booting from USB with initrd

From: gabriel
Date: Fri Apr 15 2005 - 04:27:12 EST


On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 09:27 +0200, gabriel wrote:
> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block
(1,0)

>Hi Gabriel!

Hi!

>It looks like initrd.gz could not be mounted. The unknown-block(1,0)
>is /dev/ram0 (and has normally initrd attached to it) as specified on
>kernel command line.

>Do you use an initrd or an initramfs? Is the kernel compiled with initrd
>support? Is the ramdisk size big enough to hold your initrd?

I'm no really sure what the difference is. initrd.gz is a compressed file
with a minix on it. Its created automaticly with build-initrd.sh from loop-
aes
package.

the ramdisk is 4096 which should be sufficient and yes the kernel has intrd
support.

>regards


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