[syslinux] pxelinux 2.11 unable to mount root fs

[Quinn]

Is ext2 support compiled into the kernel and not as a module?  ext3 is 
dependent on ext2.

Quinn

Salman Haq wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been using PxeLinux to boot our Debian kernel successfully for 
> some time now. I recently increased the size of the ramdisk from about 
> 484 MBs to 517 MBs and encountered the following error during bootup:
>
> ---
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> Freeing initrd memory: 105519k
> EXT3-fs: Magic mismatch, very weird!
> cramfs: wrong magic
> sh-2021: reiserfs_read_super: can not find reiserfs on ramdisk(1,0)
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00
> ---
>
> I build the ramdisk as follows:
>
> 1. run debootstrap in a temporary directory
> 2. use dd to create a blank 517 MB file
> 3. format it using mke2fs
> 4. mount it as ext2
> 5. copy contents of debootstrapped directory to mounted dd image
> 6. unmount and compress image using gzip.
>
> My kernel version is 2.4-22, compiled with the HIGHMEM option. The 
> target machine has 2 gigs of RAM.
>
> Any ideas why the kernel is not able to uncompress and mount the image?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Salman
>
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