Re: Initial ramdisk support does not work (for me) on 2.6.17.13

["linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)" <linux-os@analogic.com>]

> Hi!
>
> Hallo.
>
> We are building embedded devices based on Linux and we use a ramdisk as
> our root device in order to avoid problems with people switching off the
> unit without a proper shutdown and to save write-cycles on our flash disc.
>
> Using a 2.6.12 kernel it was no problem to boot the system by using this
> kernel parameters:
> load_ramdisk=1 console=tty0 initrd=initrd.gz rw  vga=769
> ramdisk_size=32768 root=/dev/ram0
>
> Today I tried to test run a 2.6.17.12 kernel using the same parameters
> but I get this error message:
> VFS: Cannot open root device "ram0" or unknown-block(1,0)
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
>
This is the message you get if you accidentally build the kernel without
ramdisk support. Check your configuration.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.6.16.24 on an i686 machine (5592.72 BogoMips).
New book: http://www.AbominableFirebug.com/
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