On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 09:06 -0800, shyamal wrote: > "Matt" == Matt Weber <matt@mattweber.org> writes: > > Matt> Martin, I checked that as well, my output looks exactly like > Matt> yours. Do you think this can have anything to do with > Matt> /initrd? My /initrd is empty, is that how it should be? > > /initrd is usually a link to a file, just like /vmlinuz. Typically you > will have /initrd -> /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-* and so on. This is > something the kernel installer will typically do for you. /initrd shouldn't be a symlink to your ramdisk, it is used to pivot_root inside of /sbin/init on the ramdisk itself. > > I would suggest that you edit yaboot.conf so that the initrd parameter > points to the actual file (/boot/initrd.img.-*) that goes with the > kernel you are trying and see if you can boot. > Matt, just use the 2.6.10 kernel I built for you. The ramdisk for the Debian 2.6.9 kernel looks fine but pivot_root still fails. I'll build that 2.6.10 kernel with a ramdisk and we'll see if it fails. That should narrow the problem down to initrd-tools and we'll take it from there. -- Eric Gaumer <gaumerel@ecs.fullerton.edu>
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