[syslinux] Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount

Torsten Foertsch torsten.foertsch at gmx.net
Tue Mar 25 07:32:40 PST 2003


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On Tuesday 25 March 2003 16:08, Alessandro Ferrari wrote:
> I understand that I have to create a initrd by dd if=/dev/zero of=initrd
> bs=1024 count=4096,
> then make a fs on it. After I have to edit linuxrc to call cd-rom modules.
>
> But how do I pass initrd to isolinux?

This is my isolinux.cfg:
- ------------------------------------------------------------
TIMEOUT 50
DEFAULT T8000-de
PROMPT 1
DISPLAY message

LABEL vmware
  KERNEL /boot/vmlinuz
  APPEND initrd=/boot/initrd.my root=/dev/hdc SETUP=vmware

LABEL T8000-us
  KERNEL /boot/vmlinuz
  APPEND initrd=/boot/initrd.my root=/dev/hdc SETUP=T8000-us acpi=off apm=on

LABEL T8000-de
  KERNEL /boot/vmlinuz
  APPEND initrd=/boot/initrd.my root=/dev/hdc SETUP=T8000-de acpi=off apm=on

- ------------------------------------------------------------

and here is a listing of my initrd. Particular there must be a statically 
linked /bin/sh and a /bin/insmod and all the modules you need:

opi:/mnt # find . -ls | cut -c13-
drwxr-xr-x   5 root     root         1024 Jan 13 09:46 .
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Jan 10 04:11 ./bin
- -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        56220 Jan 10 04:11 ./bin/sh
- -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       156244 Jan 10 04:11 ./bin/insmod
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Jan 10 04:11 ./dev
crw--w----   1 root     tty               Sep  9  2002 ./dev/tty1
crw--w----   1 root     tty               Sep  9  2002 ./dev/tty2
crw-rw-rw-   1 root     root              Sep  9  2002 ./dev/zero
crw-rw-rw-   1 root     root              Sep  9  2002 ./dev/null
brw-rw----   1 root     disk              Sep  9  2002 ./dev/ram0
brw-rw----   1 root     disk              Sep  9  2002 ./dev/ram1
brw-rw----   1 root     disk              Sep  9  2002 ./dev/ram2
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            4 Jan 10 04:11 ./dev/ram -> ram0
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            4 Jan 10 04:11 ./dev/ramdisk -> ram0
crw-rw----   1 root     video             Sep  9  2002 ./dev/fb0
crw-------   1 root     root              Sep  9  2002 ./dev/console
brw-rw----   1 root     disk              Sep  9  2002 ./dev/md0
brw-rw----   1 root     disk              Sep  9  2002 ./dev/md1
brw-rw----   1 root     disk              Sep  9  2002 ./dev/md10
brw-rw----   1 root     disk              Sep  9  2002 ./dev/md11
brw-rw----   1 root     disk              Sep  9  2002 ./dev/md12
brw-rw----   1 root     disk              Sep  9  2002 ./dev/md13
brw-rw----   1 root     disk              Sep  9  2002 ./dev/md14
brw-rw----   1 root     disk              Sep  9  2002 ./dev/md15
brw-rw----   1 root     disk              Sep  9  2002 ./dev/md16
brw-rw----   1 root     disk              Sep  9  2002 ./dev/md17
brw-rw----   1 root     disk              Sep  9  2002 ./dev/md18
brw-rw----   1 root     disk              Sep  9  2002 ./dev/md19
brw-rw----   1 root     disk              Sep  9  2002 ./dev/md2
brw-rw----   1 root     disk              Sep  9  2002 ./dev/md20
brw-rw----   1 root     disk              Sep  9  2002 ./dev/md21
brw-rw----   1 root     disk              Sep  9  2002 ./dev/md22
brw-rw----   1 root     disk              Sep  9  2002 ./dev/md23
brw-rw----   1 root     disk              Sep  9  2002 ./dev/md24
brw-rw----   1 root     disk              Sep  9  2002 ./dev/md25
brw-rw----   1 root     disk              Sep  9  2002 ./dev/md26
brw-rw----   1 root     disk              Sep  9  2002 ./dev/md27
brw-rw----   1 root     disk              Sep  9  2002 ./dev/md28
brw-rw----   1 root     disk              Sep  9  2002 ./dev/md29
brw-rw----   1 root     disk              Sep  9  2002 ./dev/md3
brw-rw----   1 root     disk              Sep  9  2002 ./dev/md30
brw-rw----   1 root     disk              Sep  9  2002 ./dev/md31
brw-rw----   1 root     disk              Sep  9  2002 ./dev/md4
brw-rw----   1 root     disk              Sep  9  2002 ./dev/md5
brw-rw----   1 root     disk              Sep  9  2002 ./dev/md6
brw-rw----   1 root     disk              Sep  9  2002 ./dev/md7
brw-rw----   1 root     disk              Sep  9  2002 ./dev/md8
brw-rw----   1 root     disk              Sep  9  2002 ./dev/md9
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root         1024 Jan 10 04:11 ./lib
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root         1024 Jan 10 04:11 ./lib/modules
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root         1024 Jan 10 04:11 
./lib/modules/2.4.19-4GB
drwxr-xr-x   5 root     root         1024 Jan 13 09:30 
./lib/modules/2.4.19-4GB/kernel
drwxr-xr-x   4 root     root         1024 Jan 13 09:46 
./lib/modules/2.4.19-4GB/kernel/drivers
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Jan 10 04:11 
./lib/modules/2.4.19-4GB/kernel/drivers/scsi
- -rw-r--r--   1 root     root       102276 Sep 13  2002 
./lib/modules/2.4.19-4GB/kernel/drivers/scsi/BusLogic.o
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Jan 13 09:46 
./lib/modules/2.4.19-4GB/kernel/drivers/cdrom
- -rw-r--r--   1 root     root        38120 Jan 13 09:46 
./lib/modules/2.4.19-4GB/kernel/drivers/cdrom/cdrom.o
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root         1024 Jan 10 04:11 
./lib/modules/2.4.19-4GB/kernel/fs
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Jan 10 04:11 
./lib/modules/2.4.19-4GB/kernel/fs/reiserfs
- -rw-r--r--   1 root     root       220864 Sep 13  2002 
./lib/modules/2.4.19-4GB/kernel/fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.o
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Jan 13 09:31 
./lib/modules/2.4.19-4GB/kernel/ide
- -rw-r--r--   1 root     root        38244 Jan 13 09:31 
./lib/modules/2.4.19-4GB/kernel/ide/ide-cd.o
- -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          232 Jan 13 09:46 ./linuxrc

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