hi again all,
>whenever I try to create a root-image on a ram-disk I get an Oops when loading
>the compressed image: "null pointer dereference" and the system blocks :(
>seems to be a problem of the " drivers/block/rd.c" - this is where the error
>occurs:
int __init
identify_ramdisk_image(kdev_t device, struct file *fp, int start_block)
{
......
> memset(buf, 0xe5, size);
>
> /*
> * Read block 0 to test for gzipped kernel
> */
> ==> if (fp->f_op->llseek)
> fp->f_op->llseek(fp, start_block * BLOCK_SIZE, 0);
the "f_op" seems to be uninitialized - when I use the same disk and the same
image, but a 2.2.14-kernel, it works.
any hints?
regards
ralf
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