Re: [uml-user] Booting with RedHat 8.0 initrd.img

[Oleg D. <gr...@li...>]

"Yaroslav Faybishenko" <yar...@go...> wrote:

YF> I am trying to run UML with RedHat 8.0 initrd.img, so that I can follow
YF> the installation
YF> procedure described at http://linuxhacker.ru/uml/, so my initrd.img is
YF> unmodified
YF> and the simple command line is:
YF> linux initrd=initrd.img ubd0=uml_hdd (an empty ext2fs formatted file)
YF> fakehdd fake_ide ubd=3

Actually file should not be ext2fs formatted (but that does not matter),
because partition table will be created on it and ext2 fs will be invalid.

YF> Yet the message I see is:
YF> Kernel panic: Try passing init= option to the kernel. 
YF> I thought that the initrd= will make UML pass the right init= option to
YF> the kernel.
YF> What am I doing wrong?

Have you compiled in RAMDISK support? (and initrd support too)

Bye,
    Oleg