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psychocandy
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 Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 12:21 pm Post subject: RAMDISK error - Using SILO |
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Booting from SILO CD and get the following message intermittently :-
RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0.
Freeing initrd memory: 5023k freed
Kernel panic: I have no root and I want to scream
For some reason, it cant find the RAMDISK. Weird thing is that sometimes this works OK (on the same machine) !!!! |
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Toady
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| Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 12:58 pm Post subject: |
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Can we have some more specs on the machine hardware, also what filesystem it has and the layout of your disk.
Also include anything else you think may come in handy (like the silo config etc).
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Toady
Gentoo Laptop
3.1.10-gentoo-r1, Intel Core 2 Duo (32bit)
Gnome on the desk, Intel in the box, on-board everything, but it all works! |
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psychocandy
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| Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Toady wrote: | Can we have some more specs on the machine hardware, also what filesystem it has and the layout of your disk.
Also include anything else you think may come in handy (like the silo config etc). |
Its a Sun Fire V100 with 75Gb hard disk.
The thing is all I've got is a boot CD left by a predecessor which appears to be a SILO boot CD which installs a RAMDRIVE and uses a gentoo kernel.
Heres the silo.conf:-
partition=1
timeout=10
read-only
message=/boot/cogent.txt
default=linux
append="cdrom"
initrd=/boot/root.bin.gz
ramdisk=32768
# Standard boot images
image[sun4c,sun4d,sun4m]=/boot/sparc32.gz
label=linux
image[sun4u]=/boot/sparc64
label=linux |
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psychocandy
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| Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Is this the initrd image that is causing the problem here? |
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