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Re: initrd testing



Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 10:40:11AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
>> > >>RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0.
>> > >>Freeing initrd memory: 1442 freed
>> > >>cramfs: wrong magic
>> 
>> Wait a second. Is this ramdisk really cramfs, or is it romfs?
> 
> Neither. It's gzipped ext2.

Make sure that it has the same block size as cramfs (which is the same
as the page size on your arch).  Otherwise the cramfs probing will
kill the initrd contents.

Of course make sure that ext2 is actually compiled in as well.
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