On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 02:31:23PM -0700, Murali Bharadwaj
wrote:
> 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 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.
--
Fredrik Rinnestam
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