[oe] Where is my root fs?

Khem Raj raj.khem at gmail.com
Sun Jul 4 17:50:37 UTC 2010


On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 3:34 AM, Chris Tapp <dokuwiki at keylevel.com> wrote:
> I've built an i586-generic/minimal console image and can boot this by
> passing the following kernel options:
>
> bzImage initrd=initrd.gz ramdisk_size=100000 root=/dev/ram1 init=/sbin/init
>
> However, if I build an alix/minimal console image and boot using the same
> options, then I get a kernel panic saying that root couldn't be mounted.
>
> The initrd has a /dev/ram0 device node, so why does the boot fail? I'm
> assuming it gets loaded under a different device, but I can I find out what
> it is?
>

look at the kernel .config differences
are you using same kernel for both machine configs ?

> Chris
>
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