David Cantrell wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 05:47:51PM -0500, Hank Leininger wrote:
> > On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Alessandro Martins wrote:
> >
> > > Ok, I try linux <ENTER>, linux root=/dev/ram... the kernel loads, but I get this message:
> > >
> > > You didn't specify the type of your ufs filesystem
> > >
> > > mount -t ufs -o ufstype=sun|...
> > >
> > > >>> WARNING <<< Wrong ufstype may corrupt your filesystem, default is ufstype=old
> > > ufs_type=old is supported read-only
> > > ufs_read_super: bad magic number
> > >
> > > Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00
> > > Press L1-A to return to the boot prom
> >
> > That's exactly what I was talking about when I said "it doesn't seem
> > like the initrd is recognized as a gzip'ed image, so the kernel attempts
> > to mount it as FAT which failes, and then UFS which fails..." It may be
> > that the initrd isn't being recognized at all, and mounting an empty
> > ramdisk is being attempted?
> >
> > I dunno. But, at least I'm not crazy ;)
>
> Argh... back to the drawing board. I simply don't understand why this is
> happening. The color.gz and serial.gz root images are 5MB compressed ext2
> filesystems. I will look through everything and try to figure out what's
> up. Both of you are having this happen on SPARCstation 10 systems, right?
>
> If you find any more details, please let me know
I'm still puzzled by how UFS is getting into this. Isn't this the
initial ramdisk?
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