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Re: [XenPPC] Booting Dom0 with SLES10 on JS21


On Jul 10, 2006, at 3:43 PM, poff wrote:

if you take this initrd and copy to you build machine, then:
  1. $ gzip -c initrd > ramdisk.image.gz
  2. $ cp ramdisk.image.gc <linux build>/arch/powerpc/boot

totally my fault.
turns out that the initrd is already compressed to thats:
  $ cp initrd <linux build>/arch/powerpc/boot/ramdisk.image.gz

  3. $ make <linux flags> zImage.initrd

Then try using <linux build>/arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.initrd as your
Dom0
[...]
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 3328k freed

[...]

RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
No filesystem could mount root, tried: reiserfs ext3 ext2 cramfs msdos vfat iso9660 Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown- block(8,3)
 <0>Rebooting in 180 seconds..

-JX

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