Hi, I'm trying to perform an automated harddisk installation of NLD 9 but seem to have problems loading initrd with loadlin 1.6C. The original initrd deliverd on CD1 of NLD is 5706806 bytes and I think that's too big for loadlin 1.6C. When I boot in FREEDOS and start loadlin I use the following command LOADLIN LINUX initrd=INITRD ramdisk_size=65536 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc It ends with the following error message : RAMDISk: Compressed image found at block 0 Invalid compressed format (err=2) VFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem) readonly Freeing unused kernel memory: 212K freed I've tried the following commands, without success, to start loadlin : LOADLIN LINUX INITRD=INITRD ramdisk_size=65536 LOADLIN linux initrd=initrd init=/linuxrc LOADLIN linux initrd=initrd init=/linuxrc root=/dev/ram0 I've used the same loadlin version to install RedHat 8.0 and RHES 4 without any problems. Although I must say that the initrd.img's were smaller on RH (2711963 bytes for RH8 and 3092868 bytes for RHES4) If I boot from CD1 and start the installation, the following modules are loaded during installation : Module Size Used by reiserfs 241488 1 edd 9368 0 dm_snapshot 16796 0 dm_mod 50300 1 dm_snapshot multipath 7688 0 raid6 98576 0 raid5 20736 0 xor 15240 2 raid6,raid5 raid1 14848 0 raid0 8192 0 parport_pc 35520 0 parport 37832 1 parport_pc usb_storage 60096 0 uhci_hcd 29200 0 hid 40896 0 ehci_hcd 27908 0 usbcore 103644 6 usb_storage,uhci_hcd,hid,ehci_hcd ide_cd 36740 0 sg 35616 0 sr_mod 16292 0 sd_mod 20224 0 scsi_mod 108876 4 usb_storage,sg,sr_mod,sd_mod cdrom 36892 2 ide_cd,sr_mod cramfs 42868 1 vfat 14208 2 fat 43584 1 vfat af_packet 20872 0 nvram 8456 0 I've tried to mount the initrd (from the NLD cd's) and removed all modules that weren't loaded during the cd installation. The result was an initrd of 2056532 bytes When I started loadlin with that initrd I got the following error mesages with every module the kernel want to load : on VT3 insmod: error inserting '/modules/reiserfs.ko': -1 Invalid module format insmod: error inserting '/modules/eepro100.ko': -1 Invalid module format on VT4 ehci_hcd: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module uhci_hcd: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module After giving up on trying to find out what modules I needed to put in the initrd I started looking for an alternative program for loadlin that can mount the original initrd and found Tiny.exe => http://sourceforge.net/projects/gujin/ Used that with the following command : tiny.exe linux initrd root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk_size=65536 init=/linuxrc Error message : Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. linld.com => http://195.66.192.168/linux/linld/ Used that with the followinc command : linld.com image=linux initrd=initrd cl=nld.par nld.par includes : ramdisk_size=65536 install=hd://suse/nld/cd1 autoyast=file:///mounts/extra/autoinst.xml Error message : -1 Invalid module format for every module it wants to load. Hope someone can help me out :-( Regards, Dennis Peere _________________________________________________________________ Gratis bloggen op MSN Spaces http://spaces.msn.com/?mkt=nl-be