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Re: How to fix "Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0"?



On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 11:55:54PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote:
> 
> I've been having trouble booting from kernels I've built with make-kpkg
> with the --initrd option.   My /etc/lilo.conf does has initrd=... lines.
> 
> When I try to boot a new kernel, it says:
> 
>    Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0
>    
> and says something about device 1601 / 16:01 (which disk and partition
> is that?).
> 
> I built a kernel before with make-kpkg and --initrd and got it working
> just fine, but can't figure out what I'm doing differently (and wrong)
> this time.

Hmmm...have you rerun lilo?

> By the way, Lilo's lba32 option implies that keeping things below the
> 1024th cylinder of a disk is no longer relevant.  Is that actually 
> correct?  Is it also correct for initrd images (/boot/initrd.img-...)?

As far as I know, yes, the 1024-cylinder limitation is completely gone.

-- 
Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org>				http://ertius.org/

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