Since I'm too cheap to go out and buy new CD-ROM drives for some of the ancient computers around here, I use loadlin and FREE-DOS to boot several of them when installing new versions of Fedora. This worked until FC6 quite nicely. However, for FC6, the kernel boots properly. I then get messages like: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 invalid compressed format (err=2) VFS: cannot open root device "rd/0" or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct "root=" option whereupon the kernel panics and halts. The same kernel and initrd work when booting from CD. file reports both the fc5 and fc6 initrd.img files as gzip compressed data, so I don't think the compression format has changed. I haven't checked the source for loadlin to see if there is a maximum file size for the initrd, or perhaps an error on where larger initrds are place. Suggestions? -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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