[coLinux-users] installing distro that uses cramfs for initrd

[Luis L. <lui...@gm...>]

Hello List,

I found coLinux several days back and start playing with it, using
Ubuntu 7.04 that was available at the site.

For several reasons, i want to install GoboLinux, which is a different
kind of distro that don't follow standard FHS.

The thing is that following some of the instructions in the wiki page,
I cannot get the initrd to boot since is generated using cramfs.

http://colinux.wikia.com/wiki/Full_CD-based%28iso%29_distro_install_and_config_steb-by-step_HOWTO_%28based_on_Xubuntu-7.10%29

But was impossible for me mount the initrd that came from the CD image:

(-v 3):

Cooperative Linux Daemon, 0.7.3
Daemon compiled on Wed Apr 16 19:00:33 2008
...
Linux version 2.6.22.18-co-0.7.3 (hn@hn-lt) (gcc version 4.1.2) #1
PREEMPT Wed Apr 16 18:50:10 UTC 2008
...
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
ReiserFS: cobd3: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find
reiserfs on cobd3
VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev cobd3.
VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev cobd3.
Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
List of all partitions:
7503        744 cobd3 (driver?)
No filesystem could mount root, tried:  reiserfs ext3 ext2 iso9660
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(117,3)

and this is my configuration file:

kernel=vmlinux
mem=128
initrd=initrd.gz

cobd0=data\gobo\gobo_014_root.ext3.fs
cobd1=data\gobo\swap_256mb.fs
cobd2=D:\Downloads\Tools\GoboLinux\GoboLinux-014.01-i686.iso
cobd3=data\gobo\gobo-initrd
root=/dev/cobd3

eth0=slirp,02:00:00:00:00:01,tcp:8922:8922

Can anyone point me what I'm doing wrong?

Thank you in advance for your time.

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Luis Lavena
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