Re: [BProc] Loading stage 1 ram disk.

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On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 05:27:38PM -0400, Mike Sullivan wrote:
> I discovered that I was using a stage 1 kernel/ramdisk from an earlier 
> version of Bproc which
> was causing the stage 2 load to hang.  However, upon updating to the 
> stage 1 kernel/initrd that
> come with beoboot-1.5. I know get a message of the form below.  I am 
> ignorant of what happens
> at this stage but it looks to me like the root filesystem on the ram 
> disk was mounted and then a second
> filesystem failed to mount. Anyone have any ideas?
> 
> VFS: Mounted root ( romfs filesystem ) readonly
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 72 K Freed
> boot: mount -t tmpfs none /mnt: Invalid argument
> Failed to setup root filesystem
> 
> A fatal error has occured
> Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill init.

My guess is no tmpfs support in the phase 1 kernel.  You need that now
so that the boot program can have a writable root file system.

- Erik