Hi Marc (same name as me :)
> Normally, I am always making an initial ramdisk for better portability
> to other computers. The initird is causing problems with these kernels.
> When Lilo has loaded the initrd it prints out that it can't mount root
> fs on 302 or 03:02..... Booting without an initrd is running smoothly.
> There are no such problems with older kernels like 2.4.18 and earlier.
Sure, that's one of the many issues for 2.4.19. I did send Marcello a patch
also for this issue, but ... Decide yourself what is "but" ;)
> Well... is there any solution?
Sure. Try this one and it will work!
--- a/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c Sun Jul 7 23:55:59 2002
+++ b/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c Tue Jul 9 01:54:57 2002
@@ -1411,6 +1411,9 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_STRAM_SWAP
stram_device_init();
#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM
+ rd_init();
+#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_ISP16_CDI
isp16_init();
#endif
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Kind regards
Marc-Christian Petersen
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