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Re: Fwd: 2.6.26 and 2.6.29 kernel image , Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0



On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 08:09:12AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2009-06-26 05:38 +0200, Alex Samad wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 03:09:40AM +0200, Szabolcs Tóth wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I have a Proliant DL380 G5 server with a HP Smart Array P400 Controller 
> >> which provide 2 logical drive.
> >>
> >> I used 2.6.18 debian kernel. After I upgraded to lenny I installed the  
> >> 2.6.26 amd64 kernel package but the system hanged with the following  
> >> error msg.
> >>
> >> I installed the the 2.6.29 kernel too from the lenny-backport but I got 
> >> the same error msg. I tried to upgrade lilo, adding the lage-memory 
> >> option but nothing.
> >>
> >> [    4.550063] checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (bad gzip magic 
> >> numbers); looks like an initrd
> >> [    4.690037] Freeing initrd memory: 6392k freed
> >> [    7.920170] Waiting 12sec before mounting root device...
> >> [   19.988876] RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0.
> >> [   20.067490] List of all partitions:
> >> [   20.142760] No filesystem could mount root, tried:
> >> [   20.200934] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs 
> >> on unknown-block(104,2)
> >
> > try booting with kernel options init=/bin/bash
> 
> This is not going to help because the kernel cannot even find the root
> filesystem.
you saying initrd doesn't have a /bin/bash ?


> 
> Sven
> 
> 

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