[CentOS] PXE-Kernel crashes with "RAMDISK: incomplete write ..." after modifiying initrd.img
Frank Thommen
frank.thommen at embl-heidelberg.de
Fri Mar 27 15:04:40 UTC 2009
Tru Huynh wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 05:27:10PM +0100, Frank Thommen wrote:
>>> What cpio options did you use to re-create modules/modules.cgz and then
>>> the initrd.img?
>> I used `cpio -ovF <file>` and `cpio -ov -H crc -F <file>` (I found the
>> latter on http://sial.org/howto/linux/initrd/). However I could not
>> find any "officially looking" information about how the
>> initrd.img/modules.cgz is created.
>
> find ./ | cpio -H newc -o | | gzip -c9 > /path/to/my/initrd.img
This give a slightly different error message:
[...]
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
VFS: Cannot open root device "<NULL>" or unknown-block(253,3)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
unknown-block(253,3)
The two "RAMDISK" error lines have gone. I have archived
modules/modules.cgz *and* initrd.img with "-H newc".
frank
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