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From: "Troy Davis" <troy.davis@airbornedatasystems.com>
To: "Rtl@Rtlinux.Org" <rtl@rtlinux.org>
Subject: Booting from flash disk
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 12:47:05 -0500
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Hello-
	I am following the instructions of Bernd Stahlbock on his method of booting
from a flashdisk using initrd and a ram drive.  Everything works fine up
until just after the partion check on boot:

Partition check:
  sda:  sda1
  hda:  hda1
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
[MS-DOS FS Rel.  12.FAT 0,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap]
[me=0x0,cs=0,#f=0,fs=0,fl=0,ds=0,de=0,data=0,se=0,ts=0,ls=0,rc=0,fc=42949672
95]
Transaction block size = 512
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00

	I have initrd and ramdisk support compiled into the kernel.
	I've never used initrd before, so I don't know if it is working correctly.
My flashdisk is formatted as e2fs and only contains a boot directory and
initrd.img.gz.  One thing I could not do in following Bernd's instructions
is to use gzip to compress my file structure image.  I got errors stating
all of my devices in /dev were not 'a directory or a regular file -
ignored'.  I used tar czf but I'm not sure that this will work.
	Is this error a file system error?  Or initrd?


Troy Davis
Airborne Data Systems, Inc.