Bug#254808: RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0.
Package: installation-reports
Version: sarge-sparc-netinst.iso (sid_d-i 20040616)
Severity: important
Machine:
Sun Ultra 5/10 UPA/PCI (UltraSPARC-IIi 333MHz), No Keyboard
OpenBoot 3.15, 256 MB memory installed, Serial #10816948.
Ethernet address 8:0:20:a5:d:b4, Host ID: 80a50db4.
It stops with:
[...]
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0.
Freeing initrd memory: 1820k freed
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00
Press L1-A to return to the boot prom
The sarge_d-i netinst image (20040616), on the other hand, doesn't have
this problem.
Below is the complete ouput (serial console):
[ ENTER - Boot install ] [ Type "rescue" - Boot into rescue mode ]
boot:
Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x40000000 for kernel
Loaded kernel version 2.4.26
Loading initial ramdisk (1864516 bytes at 0x0lx phys, 0xC00000 virt)...
/
Remapping the kernel... done.
Booting Linux...
PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 3.15.2 1998/11/10 10:35
Linux version 2.4.26-sparc64 (joshk@darjeeling.triplehelix.org) (gcc
version 3.3.3 (D4
ARCH: SUN4U
Ethernet address: 08:00:20:a5:0d:b4
On node 0 totalpages: 31882
zone(0): 32650 pages.
zone(1): 0 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Found CPU 0 (node=f006d088,mid=0)
Found 1 CPU prom device tree node(s).
Kernel command line: root=/dev/rd/0 cdrom devfs=mount rw
ramdisk_size=8192 rootfstype2
Calibrating delay loop... 665.19 BogoMIPS
Memory: 251952k available (2592k kernel code, 608k data, 184k init)
[fffff80000000000]
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 524288 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 262144 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 8192 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 65536 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 262144 bytes)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: Probing for controllers.
PCI: Found SABRE, main regs at 000001fe00000000, wsync at
000001fe00001c20
SABRE: Shared PCI config space at 000001fe01000000
SABRE: DVMA at c0000000 [20000000]
PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 3] slot[ 0] map[1] to INO[11]
PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 3] slot[ 4] map[1] to INO[10]
PCI0(PBMA): Bus running at 33MHz
PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 1] slot[ 1] map[0] to INO[21]
PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 1] slot[ 2] map[0] to INO[0f]
PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 1] slot[ 3] map[0] to INO[20]
PCI0(PBMB): Bus running at 33MHz
ebus0: [auxio] [power] [SUNW,pll] [se] [su] [su] [ecpp] [fdthree]
[eeprom] [flashprom]
PCIO serial driver version 1.54
su(mouse) at 0x1fff13062f8 (irq = 4,7ea) is a 16550A
Sun Mouse-Systems mouse driver version 1.00
su(kbd) at 0x1fff13083f8 (irq = 9,7e9) is a 16550A
keyboard: not present
SAB82532 serial driver version 1.65
ttyS00 at 0x1fff1400000 (irq = 12,7eb) is a SAB82532 V3.2
ttyS01 at 0x1fff1400040 (irq = 12,7eb) is a SAB82532 V3.2
Console: ttyS0 (SAB82532)
power: Control reg at 000001fff1724000 ... powerd running.
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
rtc_init: no PC rtc found
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
sunhme.c:v2.01 26/Mar/2002 David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
eth0: HAPPY MEAL (PCI/CheerIO) 10/100BaseT Ethernet 08:00:20:a5:0d:b4
eth1: HAPPY MEAL (PCI/CheerIO) 10/100BaseT Ethernet 08:00:20:a5:0d:b4
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
CMD646: IDE controller at PCI slot 01:03.0
CMD646: chipset revision 3
CMD646: chipset revision 0x03, MultiWord DMA Force Limited
CMD646: 100% native mode on irq 4,7e0
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1fe02c00020-0x1fe02c00027, BIOS settings: hda:pio,
hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1fe02c00028-0x1fe02c0002f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio,
hdd:pio
hda: ST39140A, ATA DISK drive
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
hdc: CRD-8322B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1fe02c00000-0x1fe02c00007,0x1fe02c0000a on irq 4,7e0
ide1 at 0x1fe02c00010-0x1fe02c00017,0x1fe02c0001a on irq 4,7e0 (shared
with ide0)
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: 17803440 sectors (9115 MB) w/448KiB Cache, CHS=17662/16/63, (U)DMA
hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdc: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Partition check:
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
host/usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 17:08:12 May 26 2004
host/usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
host/usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usb.c: registered new driver usbmouse
usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver
usb.c: registered new driver usbkbd
usbkbd.c: :USB HID Boot Protocol keyboard driver
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0.
Freeing initrd memory: 1820k freed
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00
Press L1-A to return to the boot prom
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (850, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.5-frda5
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=da_DK
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