In message EGEGIJHKDKJGAJMGIDPNGEFHCKAA.jwalden@digitalatlantic.com you wrote:
Where did you get this ramdisk image from?
I made the ramdisk image using the following procedure:
dd if=/dev/zero of=ramdisk bs=1k count=16384 /sbin/mke2fs -q -F -m0 ramdisk mount -o loop ramdisk mountpoint cd mountpoint tar xf ../fsimage.tar
Where did you get "fsimage.tar" from? What does it contain.
What makes you think it is working at all?
I performed the following procedure to verify it.
[root@hhl initrd]# dd if=initrd of=ramdisk.gz bs=64 skip=1 23583+1 records in 23583+1 records out [root@hhl initrd]# gzip -d ramdisk.gz [root@hhl initrd]# mount -o loop ramdisk mountpoint [root@hhl initrd]# ls -al mountpoint total 26 drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 1024 Mar 20 15:34 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr 1 16:31 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Mar 20 15:34 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Mar 20 15:34 drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 1024 Mar 20 15:34 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Mar 20 15:34 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Mar 20 15:34 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Mar 20 15:34 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 1024 Mar 20 15:34 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Mar 20 15:34
Ummm... I don't even see a filename here. I don;t see if there is an "init" binary or a shell or any library or any device.
Which sort of output do you expect when providing such input? GIGO...
Wolfgang Denk