Re: (Sparc64) 2.6.20 seems to ignore initramfs

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

Andrew Walrond schrieb:
> On a Sun T1000 I am trying to boot 2.6.20 using initramfs. (I use the same 
> procedure successfully on x86_64 and itanium2 servers).
>
> The relevent silo section looks like this:
>
> image=/boot/2.6.20.image
>         label=2.6.20
>         initrd=/boot/2.6.20.initramfs
>         partition=2
>         read-only
>
> The kernel loads and boots and I see

(...)

> So it knows about the initramfs, but then tries to mount a root filesystem 
> instead...
>
> I haven't tried this (initramfs)  with earlier kernels, so I don't know 
> whether this is a regression. Any clues about how to solve this would be 
> greatly appreciated.

Does it make a difference if you embed initramfs directly in the kernel?

CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE="/path/to/your/initramfs/directory"


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Tomasz Chmielewski
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