Kernel for linuxbios

Eric W. Biederman ebiederman at lnxi.com
Sun Oct 17 15:32:01 CEST 2004


Stefan Reinauer <stepan at openbios.org> writes:

> * Sagiv Yefet <sagivy at 3vium.com> [041013 16:11]:
> > Actually, I am using 2.4.24. 
> > Maybe I should upgrade to 2.6.*. 
> > but in the meanwhile what could be the problem?
> > 
> > The command is:
> > 
> > ./objdir/sbin/mkelfImage -t bzImage-i386 --kernel=/home/sagivy/bzImage
> 
> > 	--command-line="rw console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/ram0"  
> > 	--initrd=/home/sagivy/initrd --output=/home/sagivy/bzImage.elf
> 
> leave root=/dev/ram0 away in the parameters and say initrd=initrd
> instead. IIRC there was some check in Linux that it only looks for an
> initrd if there is a parameter saying that there is one.

Not those arguments should be correct.  The initrd command line
is only parsed by bootloaders, especially by the HPA's bootloaders
syslinux, isolinux, and pxelinux.

Eric





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