Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Problems booting dev build of 1.2 Beta 2

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

>
> I've been trying to create a bootable Devil-Linux (1.2b2) CD for about a
> week now.  Very frustrating. :(
>
> A little background:
>
> - I've been using DL since 0.5 or so and have always created by own CD
> versions (I needed various drivers/etc)
> - My build system is a P3 running 2.4.20 (RedHat9)
> - I've been able to get a 1.0.6 DL built and bootable without a problem
>
> Ok - here is my problem:
>
> - When I boot from a new CD of 1.2b2 I get:
>
> EDD information not available
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on ram0
>
> More info on build env:
>
> - My DL .config has selected 2.6.x as target kernel
> - I found some issues with the stock src/ files with 2.6.6 so I updated
> the
> build to use 2.6.7

Please keep in mind that Kernel 2.6 in DL is not yet fully supported,
there are still a lot of issues existing. DL 1.3 will resolve those
problems.
If possible use 2.4.

> - iptables wouldn't compile due to a known issue with 2.6.6/2.6.7 - I
> applied a small patch to get around that
>
> Everything seems to build fine without any errors, and "make iso" creates
> a
> bootcd.iso without any problems.
>
> Any idea why I'm getting the kernel panic?
>
> Thanks - any help would be very appreciated - I'm at a loss at this point.

The solution for your problems is most likely the following:
use ext2 instead of cramfs for the initrd.

-- 
Regards
  Heiko Zuerker
  http://www.devil-linux.org