Re: [XenPPC] Booting Dom0 with SLES10 on JS21

[Jimi Xenidis <jimix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 10, 2006, at 3:43 PM, poff wrote:

> > if you take this initrd and copy to you build machine, then:
> >   1. $ gzip -c initrd > ramdisk.image.gz
> >   2. $ cp ramdisk.image.gc <linux build>/arch/powerpc/boot
totally my fault.
turns out that the initrd is already compressed to thats:
  $ cp initrd <linux build>/arch/powerpc/boot/ramdisk.image.gz

> >   3. $ make <linux flags> zImage.initrd
> >
> > Then try using <linux build>/arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.initrd as your
> > Dom0
[...]
> checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks  
> like an initrd
> Freeing initrd memory: 3328k freed
[...]

> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> No filesystem could mount root, tried:  reiserfs ext3 ext2 cramfs  
> msdos vfat iso9660
> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown- 
> block(8,3)
>  <0>Rebooting in 180 seconds..
-JX

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