Message-ID: <3AEF8D52.B67F37E1@yahoo.com> From: Komaladevy Dhanapal Newsgroups: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions Subject: Re: linux install disk References: <3AED106D.BE4BDA24@yahoo.com> boundary="------------1B83C16963B8C9064704D47B" Lines: 168 Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 04:29:48 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.12.84.25 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com 988777788 65.12.84.25 (Tue, 01 May 2001 21:29:48 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 21:29:48 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: newsread1.funet.fi alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions:10822 --------------1B83C16963B8C9064704D47B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, > I am trying to create a boot/root disk for linux (Kernel 2.4.2). > I have created the boot disk and when loaded it prompts like > > VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press ENTER. > When I enter the root disk, I get the following error messages > > RAMDISK: Compressed Image found at block 0 (which I feel is correct and it > should) > invalid compressed format (err=2)<6> Serial driver version 5.02 > (2000-08-09) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled > ttyS00 at 0x03fd ( irq =4) is a 16550A > ttyS00 at 0x03fd ( irq =4) is a 16550A > Real Time Clock Driver v1.10d > md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 > md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096 > autodetecting RAID arrays > autorun... > ...autorun DONE. > NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 > IP Protocols : ICMP,UDP,TCP,IGMP > IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes > TCP: Hash Tables configured (established 13072 bind > 65536) > Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM > VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER > > Again when I press enter it tells > > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 02:00 > I am thinking of that something could be wrong with root disk and trying to > create a new one. > > Can someone help me . > komala > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices > http://auctions.yahoo.com/ alanrath wrote: > Komaladevy Dhanapal wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > we need to create a customized linux (linux + our app) installation > > on a cdrom. when that cdrom is given to a user , a new install of linux > > + our app should take place. Can u please throw some light on this? > > > > iam able to do these steps > > > > 1 - build latest kernel image wiht ram disk support (floppy 1) > > 2 - create a root file system.(floppy 2) > > > > how to specify the kernel to take the root file system from the floppy > > 2? > > > > Thanx > > Komala > > > I believe you would look into "kickstart" if you want to use RedHat. There > are also some others for different distros. I have never used them so > someone else will probably have better info. Problem would probably be that > every system is different and sometimes hardware doesn't configure easily > automatically. > Will the app need Xwindows? Or is it simple enough to use a simple console? --------------1B83C16963B8C9064704D47B Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi,

I am trying to create a boot/root disk for linux (Kernel 2.4.2).
I have created the boot disk and when loaded it prompts like

VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press ENTER.
When I enter the root disk, I get the following error messages

   RAMDISK: Compressed Image found at block 0 (which I feel is correct and it should)
   invalid compressed format (err=2)<6> Serial driver version 5.02 (2000-08-09) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
   ttyS00 at 0x03fd ( irq =4) is a 16550A
   ttyS00 at 0x03fd ( irq =4) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10d
md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun...
...autorun DONE.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols : ICMP,UDP,TCP,IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash Tables configured (established 13072 bind
65536)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER
Again when I press enter it tells
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 02:00

I am thinking of that something could be wrong with root disk and trying to create a new one.
Can someone help me .

komala
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alanrath wrote:

Komaladevy Dhanapal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we need to create a customized linux (linux + our app) installation
> on a cdrom. when that cdrom is given to a user , a new install of linux
> + our app should take place. Can u please throw some light on this?
>
> iam able to do these steps
>
> 1 - build latest kernel image wiht ram disk support (floppy 1)
> 2 - create a root file system.(floppy 2)
>
> how to specify the kernel to take the root file system from the floppy
> 2?
>
> Thanx
> Komala
>
I believe you would look into "kickstart" if you want to use RedHat. There
are also some others for different distros. I have never used them so
someone else will probably have better info. Problem would probably be that
every system is different and sometimes hardware doesn't configure easily
automatically.
Will the app need Xwindows? Or is it simple enough to use a simple console?

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