[Trinux-talk] Alternative kernels and trinux-uml

[Jonathan R. <mma...@ya...>]

Hi,

I've been trying to get the initrd from trinux-uml-0.1.tgz to work with
another kernel which has both CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM and CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
configured, the minix fs mounts, but for some reason an initial console
can't be found, and this isn't a devfs issue either since nomount is used.

Usually, in a situation like this it would be safe to assume that
something is amiss in the initrd, but this is definitely not the case, and
the initrd does work properly with the kernel which comes with trinux-uml. 
I thought maybe it was a compiler issue so I made a uml (2.4.17-5um) with
the same compiler used to make the trinux-uml kernel, but I still had the
same results.

This leads me to suspect that it is a configuration conflict.  Could you
please send me the .config you used for the trinux-uml kernel?  It would
also be a good idea to include this .config with the trinux-uml package. 

The kernel which ships with gbootroot (gbootroot.sf.net) exhibits the same
problem, and the config used to make this kernel is included.  I am
thinking that it may be something simple causing this problem. 

Thanks,


Jonathan


RAMDISK: Minix filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 4096 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
Freeing initrd memory: 4096k freed
cramfs: wrong magic
MINIX-fs: mounting unchecked file system, running fsck is recommended.
VFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem).
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
Kernel panic: No init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel.