Ian Thompson wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm porting the 2.4 kernel to a custom board, and I'm running into some > trouble while trying to mount the root filesystem. There is no media > (hard drives, cdrom drives, etc) attached to the system, but of course > the kernel needs a root filesystem to boot. So, I'm trying to create an > empty ramdisk and have the kernel mount that as the root fs. The kernel > installs the ramdisk driver fine, but when it tries to open the ramdisk, > I get this error message: > > RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 128K size 1024 blocksize > VFS: Cannot open root device "ram0" or 01:00 > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00 > You don't need to supply "root=/dev/ram0" argument as long as you give the configure in the following option: Initial RAM disk (initrd) support (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD) Jun
