Re: [Trinux-talk] Alternative kernels and trinux-uml

[Matthew F. <mf...@ci...>]

Hi Jonathan,

Based on the traffic from uml mailing list I think the initrd is broken in
the latest release. I had similar problems and Bill Burdick's kernel was
the only one I could get working. I also tried multiple compilers and
glibc's, too.

I have the config on my laptop at work, but the solution is probably to go
back a few releases of UML and not use the latest.

- mdf

>
> 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.
>
>
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