Re: Initrd and ramdisk support

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Fri Sep 29 2006 - 04:12:22 EST



>Unpacking initramfs...<0>Kernel panic - not syncing: bad gzip magic numbers
>Unpacking initramfs...<0>Kernel panic - not syncing: no cpio magic
>
>i luckily was able to determine the malefactor. There was the initrd support
>built into the kernel while the ramdisk driver was just built as a module.
>
>Is it senseful to have the possibility to built the Initramfs/Initrd-support
>without having the ramdisk driver forced to be integrated also?

I hardly see a point in using initrd support without ramdisk. Where would you
store the initrd on instead?


Jan Engelhardt
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