Re: sarge install

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Neil Roeth <neil@debian.org> writes:

> On Oct 12, Goswin von Brederlow (brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de) wrote:
>  > Joakim Roubert <jokke@df.lth.se> writes:
>  > 
>  > > On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Neil Roeth wrote:
>  > > 
>  > > > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
>  > > > Mounted devfs on /dev
>  > > > VFS: Cannot open root device "rd/0" or 00:00
>  > > > Please append a correct "root=" boot option
>  > > > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00
>  > > >
>  > > >        ### and it hung.
>  > > 
>  > > I've seen stuff like this when I did not include the correct hard disk
>  > > controller driver. Are you sure you did that, and with the right
>  > > parameters?
>  > 
>  > Did you see anything about the ramdisk being loaded or unpacked?
>  > 
>  > MfG
>  >         Goswin
> 
> I saw these:
> 
> RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384k size 1024k blocksize
> .
> .
> .
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0

So it has the ramdisk and uncompressed it.

> Freeing initrd memory: 2249k freed

Now it freed it? Or is that just the compressed image? From the size I
guess it freed the compressed image.

> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
> Mounted devfs on /dev
> VFS: Cannot open root device "rd/0" or 00:00
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00

No clue why it would do this.

> I don't see any explicit messages about uncompressing the RAM disk.  There was
> nothing else after the "RAMDISK driver initialized" message about RAMDISK or
> initrd, though if there is anything relevant before the "RAMDISK driver
> initialized" message, I missed it because it scrolled off the screen.  Since
> it paniced and hung, I could not scroll back.  If there is something critical
> before that, I could try the install with the console set to the serial port,
> access the serial port via minicom on another machine, and log everything that
> way.
> 
> Is it normal to see the message about freeing initrd memory before attempting
> to mount something on the RAM disk?

see above

MfG
        Goswin