Re: Basic kernel 2.4.9 panic???

[dman <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 05:02:58PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
| dman(dsh8290@rit.edu) is reported to have said:
| > On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 01:10:58PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
| > ...
| > 
| > | I had a simular problem when I enabled the Ramdisk and cramfs when I
| > | went to 2.4.9.  I thought I would see what all the initrd stuff was
| > | about.  So I de-selected all the initrd items and compiled without it.
| > | BTW I compile the old way, not with make kpkg, and I get the kernels
| > | from kernel.org.  Anyway I didn't get those errors anymore.
| > 
| > If you enable the initrd stuff, then you need to have an initrd and
| > use it when booting.  There is an argument to make-kpkg that will
| > create an initrd as well as the kernel image (I have no idea wrt
| > standard builds).  I use grub as my bootloader and need to have an
| > "initrd=/boot/initrd" (or whatever it is named) in my kernel arguments
| > and then "initrd /boot/initrd" as the last command (instead of
| > "boot").
| 
| I knew all that before I looked into trying out initrd.  I had read
| all the posts, and docs, before I ever started.  I never got to the
| booting stage as the kernel compile gave me 'cramfs' errors.  Just
| like the original poster was getting.  That was a few weeks ago and I
| did not keep notes so I think that was the only compile error I
| received.
| 
| Or are you saying that the Cramfs errors would have gone away if I had 
| used make kpkg?  I don't think so .....

I didn't even see the original post, and know nothing of errors
compiling the kernel.  I had no errors whatsoever with my 2.4.8
compiles (using make-kpkg, didn't try the "traditional" method).

I just a a mention of trouble booting with an initrd so I thought I'd
add my $0.02 :-).

-D