Re: hi and I need some help with an hp9000/889/k460

["Thibaut VARENE" <T-Bone@parisc-linux.org>]

On 3/18/06, Dieter Ries <clip2@gmx.de> wrote:
> at first everything looks good, the ttyB0 seems standard, and we chose the
> 64bit kernel image. kernel starts and initializes everything, but then it
> writes
>
> "RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 12944k size 1024 blocksize"
> "RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 12944k size 1024 blocksize"
> "RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 12944k size 1024 blocksize"
> "RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 12944k size 1024 blocksize"
> "RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 12944k size 1024 blocksize"

known problem, see:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-hppa/2006/01/msg00088.html

though I'd expect it to be fixed in the latest etch install images...

> we tried to change the size of the ramdisk, but this only had the effect that
> the message turned into
>
> "RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8000k size 1024 blocksize"

thing is, you just got it backward: you need to *increase* the size of
the ramdisk (try 65536 for instance) instead of decreasing it.

HTH

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Thibaut VARENE
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