#1 cramfs: wrong magic

[Stephen Cope]

I've downloaded and extracted Netstation 0.8.2 and
built it:

wget http://.../netstation-0.8.2-build-tree.tar.bz2
sudo tar jxvf netstation-0.8.2-build-tree.tar.bz2
sudo vi packages.conf
sudo vi modules.conf
sudo ./build

I then copied the files to my FAT partition:

sudo cp initrd /mnt/nsboot/
sudo cp boot-images/syslinux/* /mnt/nsboot/
sudo cp kernel/vmlinuz /mnt/nsboot/

Unmounted the partition and ran syslinux:

sudo umount /mnt/nsboot
sudo syslinux /dev/hda4

Then I restarted, selected netstation from my GRUB
menu, but was given this error:

cramfs: wrong magic
Kernel panic: unable to mount fs 01:00

What has happened?

Checksum from at the end of the build process matches
the checksum when running 'file' on initrd.

FYI, My GRUB menu contains this for booting Netstation:

title Netstation Linux
root (hd0,3)
makeactive
chainloader +1

[Roland]

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Hello Stephen,

please check the size of your bootimage and make shure
that it doesn't exceed 8MB in size. If it does, you have to
increase >ramdisk_size=8192"< parameter in netstation
build-script.(mknbi....) This issue will be fixed in the next
netstation release - the ramdisk size will be calculated from
the cramfs-size.
please report, if this helps !
regards
Roland

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Hi Stephen,
Maybe not related, but may help...
I've get the same error ( kernel panic ), but without the cramfs
error ( i don't use GRUB, i boot directly on the DOS
partition ).. In the syslinux.cfg file, in the line
append=initrd=initrd..., you must delete the first '=', to get a
line like this : append initrd=inintrd... This had remove my
kernel panic error message.
HTH
Fred.

[Stephen Cope]

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Hi kaylog,

I tried adjusting the ramdisk size parameter (initrd is
about 4.5MB) and running syslinux again. Still have the same
problem.

I'll try the other suggestion when I get to work.