Re: ramdisk mount problem

From
Wolfgang Denk <hidden>
Date
2003-01-14 18:57:50
In message [ref] you wrote:
I am trying to use 2MB ramdisk image from denx as my
linux filesystem. Linux kernel fails to mount the
'ext2' type file system from initrd. I pin pointed the
problem.
There are at least two important preconditions:

* You must enable support for ramdisk, initial ramdisk, and ext2
  filesystem, in your kernel config
* you must pass "root=/dev/ram rw" (and probably some more) as
  kernel boot argument.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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