[CentOS] rebuilding anaconda for centos 4.0

[Hilliard, Jay]

I get that when my initrd is messed up.  I'll generally re-create it and 
things will be resolved.
Also, you may try bumping up the ramdisk size in your pxelinux.cfg

append ramdisk_size=20000

I create my initrd's with:

zcat  /tmp/initrd.img > /tmp/initrd.fs
mkdir /mnt/initrd
mount  -o loop /tmp/initrd.fs /mnt/initrd

make any changes...like putting in the new init and loader from 
anaconda-runtime

umount /mnt/initrd
cat /tmp/initrd.fs | gzip  -9 > /tmp/initrd-new.img


David Thompson wrote:

>Hi all:
>
>I'm trying to rebuild the anaconda installer for Centos 4.0 (i386) to add some 
>RPMs and do some other things, and I've run into a problem.  I've done lots of 
>anaconda rebuilds for Tao Linux 1.0, and I'm bringing those bits forward into 
>Centos 4.0.  The all-knowing web hasn't turned up anything useful.  It looks 
>like the PXE-loaded kernel unpacked and mounted the initrd OK, but then things 
>went awry (quickly).  Anyone seen this on a PXE boot of an anaconda build?
>
><snip>
>RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
>VFS: Cannot open root device "<NULL>" or unknown-block(3,2)
>Please append a correct "root=" boot option
>Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,2)
>
>Help or pointers to applicable docs very welcome.
>
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