On 13/08/12 08:36, Murali Bharadwaj wrote:
Ok thanks for the prompt reply. Yes i was searching online when i saw some help related to what you've suggested. So i'm going to try one more time and enable everything this time ( i did last time as well but i could be wrong ). Will post kernel config if it fails again.
regards, murali.
------------------------------------------------------------------------ *From:* Fredrik Rinnestam <fredrik@rinnestam.se> *To:* crux@lists.crux.nu *Sent:* Sunday, August 12, 2012 5:40 PM *Subject:* Re: Unable to boot into 2.8.rc0
Hi,
I downloaded the 2.8 iso and went about installing it. Everything went through fine including configuring the 3.4.7 kernel (didn't give any error). I even copied bzImage to boot along with System.map. However on trying to boot into Crux i got kernel panic saying "VFS: Unable to mount root, couldn't find valid ramdisk image", can't remember the exact error message but it should be quite similar to what i mentioned here.
Can you please tell what could have gone wrong? There was a 3.4.7
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 02:31:23PM -0700, Murali Bharadwaj wrote: patch file, i didnt do anything with that, could that be the reason or did i miss something else?
The fact i didn't get any error during install but the OS not
booting is bothering me a lot.
Can someone please help?
Thanks.
You probably forgot something in the kernel config. Make sure you enable everything you need to mount the root fs (and not as modules, catch 22)
What has changed since the kernel included on the 2.7 iso is the need for:
CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y
It's required by the udev version that is shipped on rc0. Other common "gotchas" are SCSI-disk support, filesystem and your ide/sata/scsi controller. Remember that these devices must be built into the kernel (not as modules) unless you run a initrd.
If you still have problems, please post your kernel config so we can have a look at it.
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