On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 08:42:36AM -0600, Austad, Jay wrote: > This is not true though. That's what the initrd (Initial Ramdisk) is > for. The initrd image is loaded into memory before the kernel, and > when the kernel boots, it loads modules from the initrd image (which > is ext2, and yes I have ext2 built into the kernel). Mandrake makes > reiserfs as a module, and since it's loaded into their initrd image, > I'm able to boot fine with it. > > But for some reason when compiling a new kernel, and making a new > initrd image, I cannot boot. You aren't, by chance, using a vanilla kernel and trying to boot a cramfs image, are you? AFAIK, the vanilla kernel cannot do this. I've tried multiple times, but I don't know all the pieces one must put together to do so. Debian's images have a cramfs-initrd patch stuffed somewhere in the *.diff. My plan was to suck the current kernel-source-2.4.12 into CVS, then do the cvs-upgrade with the vanilla source. That way the patch will live on and hopefully be corrected w/the new upstream. -- Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr Key fingerprint = B4AB D627 9CBD 687E 7A31 1950 0CC7 0B18 206C 5AFD -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011120/d90a75d3/attachment.pgp