At 14:29 Uhr +0200 13.04.2001, nicola moretti wrote:
Peter Hartmann wrote:
... Since it is not at all clear from the manual what the appropriate ramdisk for the kernel "vmlinux" is, I chose "ramdisk.image.gz" (which is the default). "vmlinux" is the only kernel that shows up in BootX. And, BTW, although according to the manual, the default kernel arguments showing when BootX is launched should be
root=/dev/fd0 ramdisk_size=64000
what shows up as the default but did not work is
root=0200 ramdisk_size=128000
which I think is pretty odd and contradictory. I used the arguments form the book.
Any suggestions?
Thanks for your suggestion!
I don't have suggestions for your problem with the CD, but for sure the default "root=/dev/fd0" is wrong (fd0 is floppy disk. God knows why I should have root device on floppy when installing from CD...:-). I have always had everything working right by stripping that string from the BootX dialog, but without touching anything else (no ramdisk increment, etc.).
Yes, this made me a bit suspicious also, but I figured that this may somehow be related to the ramdisk image. Anyway, I tried as you suggested, to no avail. The symptoms are exactly identical. I even tried deleting all kernel arguments, no change. I also tried: ramdisk_size=64000 root=0200 ramdisk_size=64000 This is just experimental computing, and the result was the same. After so and so many reboots, I am more and more sure that there is something non-deterministic about where the communication with the CD-Rom fails. Sometimes it fails somewhere still in LinusxRC, but once I could even get until 75% of YaST's system checking. The point of failure is reached between certain points of the boot process, but is otherwise rather erratic.
Just guessing, but if your computer have 128MB RAM or so, your setting for the ramdisk may leave no resources left for other needs...
Changing the ram_disk size to 128000 or 48000 explicitly dumps me into the kernel debugger, where the system freezes. ram_disk=64000 and not ram_disk argument at all both work, until things come to halt due to the CD-Problems. So, more suggestions are welcome ;-) Thanks, __ Peter Hartmann ________ mailto:hphartmann@justmail.de