Re: initrd failure on Linux-2.4.17

[Jeff Chua <jeffchua _at_ silk.corp.fedex.com>]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> Freeing initrd memory: 581k freed
> kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00
>
> Has somebody fixed this or is it expected that nobody uses
> an initial RAM disk on 2.4.17 ..or.. is this not the latest
> "stable" version of Linux to use?

RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 5384k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Freeing unused kernel memory: 172k freed

I booted with Linux-2.4.0 up to 2.4.18-pre3.

Did you specify root=/dev/hda2 in your boot file?


Jeff.

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