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Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic---cramfs problem



On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 20:13, Tom Allison wrote:
> Tom Allison wrote:
> 
> > I got a really interesting one.
> >
> > I am running a stock K7 kernel from woody.
> > I recall seeing such things as cramfs, VFS, and initrd during the boot 
> > sequence.
[snip]
> Freeing initrd memory: 2700k freed
> VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem).
> [and the rest goes on from there]
> 
> I'm thinking that there is some sort of problem in creating a RAMDISK 
> from cramfs...

Build your own kernel.  cramfs is only for embedded applications,
and initrd/ramdisks are only needed if you create your fs drivers 
as modules.

Since my system always has ext2/3 disks mounted, I play it safe
and compile it directly into the kernel

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