similar to: modifying initrd.img to run custom application

Hi, I want to customize initrd so that I can run my application once vmlinuz loads initrd. (similar to dos booting - dos runs autoexec.bat) I copied vmlinuz & initrd from RHEL4 ISO. Mounted initrd renamed 'linuxrc' exe to linuxrc1 created new script linuxrc called linuxrc1 from linuxrc script called my application from linuxrc script. But I receive "kernel panic" error:

I am having a problem with setting up diskless clients under CentOS 5.2. I have everything working under CentOS 4.7. This is an adaptation of the (somewhat old) Diskless Linux with PXE HOWTO by Gerd v. Egidy, originally at the URL http://www.intra2net.com/opensource/diskless-howto/, which is now defunt (there is a mirror of it at http://blog.chinaunix.net/u/2389/showart_82438.html). What I am

I wrote a bunch of files to a backup DVD about two months ago and now neither of my drives will read it. I get mount errors from "not a directory" to something like "unrecognized file system type" and so on, usually after a really long wait and a notice about how the drive is write-protected (duh). Here's what happened most recently: # mount /dev/hdc /mnt mount: block

Hi guys, I have been fighting with Syslinux and PXElinux for two days now. I have gotten the floppy to boot but can't get pxelinux to work. I get a message: No !PXE or PXENV+ API fournd; we're dead I am guessing this means I need something else on the floppy? The floppy has: # ls /floppy/ total 24K -r-xr-xr-x 1 9.4K Nov 2 16:31 ldlinux.sys -rwxr-xr-x 1 14K Nov 2 16:50

more /etc/xen/scalix2 kernel="/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.1.6.el5xen" memory = 512 name = "hating-xen" vif = [''ip = "10.0.1.150", bridge=xenbr0''] disk = [ ''/dev/XEN/scalixroot,sda1,w'', ''/dev/XEN/scalixvar,sda3,w'', ''/dev/XEN/scalixswap,sda2,w'' ] It

Hello all, First off, thanks for the great work. I have recently added "more submenus" to a functioning advanced menu that only had one "submenu off of the main menu before" The addition of the new submenus has caused the main menu to not function correctly and I have been pouring over the code for several weeks and I just cannot see the error that I have introduced. This

I recently installed Fedora Cora 5 (2.6.17-1.2157_FC5) on my PC, and then installed Wine (0.9.17) from the Fedora yum repository. I then installed Master of Orion II, and tried to run it. It started OK, but as soon as I moved the mouse, it seemed to hang. My keyboard and mouse stopped working, and the only way I could break out was to hit Ctrl-Alt-Del and log out. I tried this repeatedly, and

On a client running FC5 with all packages updated from yum (running samba 3.0.23a-1.fc5.1 and the 2.6.17-1.2157_FC5 linux kernel), I cannot access multiple samba shares that have share-level security using cifs. 0. To reproduce, use a server that serves two shares with share-level security. Make sure the shares have different passwords. 1. Using the standard mount command and specifying cifs

Hi, in short: - EPIA MII6000E motherboard with CF-Card - Booting from network works with Linux Kernel 2.4.25 - Change to 2.6.15.4 doesn't work -- kernel panics: VFS: Cannot open root device "hde1" or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic - not syncinc: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) in Detail: -

Hello, When I upgrade syslinux from 2.13 to 3.02. my linux floppy doesn't boot anymore. steps: dd if=/dev/zero of=fdimg bs=18k count=160 mkdosfs fdimg syslinux fdimg mount -o loop fdimg /mnt cp files/* /mnt/ umount /mnt then use memdisk load fdimg the files includes: vmlinuz initrd syslinux.cfg message.txt f1.txt ... it only prompts 1 line: SYSLINUX 3.02

hi ya syslinuxerz - i've been slowly working on a making a custom bootable standalone usb-stick with X11 and kde - it's basically builds itself off of a slackware-10.1 server - create a custom initrd.gz ( /dev/ram0 ) http://linux-boot.net/Bootable/InitRD/ - create a custom rootfs.gz ( /dev/loop0 ) http://linux-boot.net/Bootable/RootFS/ - create X11 and kde loopfiles

Hi I am trying to have a built in initramfs along with the traditional initrd. So I mount the initrd from the initramfs, but am facing problems in trying to run the 'linuxrc'. Following are the issues: 1. I mount the initrd from the initramfs and exceve 'linuxrc'. It starts executing linuxrc, but gives the following errors and panics: Red hat nash version 3.4.42 starting

I converted my lvm root initrd to an initramfs by putting glibc, lvm, pivot_root, my linuxrc, etc. in my initramfs source file. I use ash compiled against klibc to run my linuxrc Unfortunately - pivot_root . initrd - complains - pivot_root: Invalid argument I suspect this may be because you can't pivot_root using a cpio initramfs root? If so, what should I do instead? Should I

Good Morning I have a problem with my dovecot configuration, somepeople can help-me sending me a example of a dovecot with ldap configuration ? dovecot.conf slapd.conf I'm have - dovecot-1.0-0.beta8.2.fc5 - kernel-smp-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5 - openldap-2.3.19-4 - Fedora Core 5 Today we connect using PAM but we like connect by LDAP because we have some problems.

Hello again, I'm always not able to boot-up my CF-FileSystem. (It works with a 2.4.x Kernel!) See: http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2006-June/006942.html I dont't understand, why the kernel can't mount the root-fs on exit of "linuxrc". Before finising "linuxrc" I can work on it, start a "bash"-shell, do all sorts of linux-cmds on the root-fs...

Hi, I've been running the foreign language training program The Rosetta Stone(TRS) on wine for months now, but a recent commit to the linux kernel has caused TRS to be unable to read the DVD drive, where the program's data files are kept. Strangely, winefile can still read the data DVD, but TRS cannot, and I'm stumped. Below is the guilty kernel commit (rather long, sorry). Can

Hi, I am trying to load kernel 2.6.6 on a Soekris net4521 from the network using PXE. I built my initrd with mkinitrd. RedHat nash (while running linuxrc) hangs after mounting /proc and says "Creating block devices". I am using the pxelinux.0 from the syslinux-2.10 distribution and the kernel and initrd were built on redhat 9.0. I built my kernel with BLK_DEV_RAM, RAMFS, TMPFS,

Dear All, I have a following query: - My initrd image is created using ext2 filesystem. - The filesystem type of / is specified as ext3 in /etc/fstab file. - I dont mount the real root during execution of linuxrc because I referred some documents saying that if you dont mount real root from linuxrc the kernel will mount it after linuxrc is finished. - The system boots up successfully, mount

Hello, Im a Gentoo kernel maintainer thats trying to fix some bugs on are upcoming 1.4 livecd release that uses IsoLinux. Our isolinux.cfg is pretty standard : ######################################### default gentoo append initrd=initrd acpi=off root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc timeout 300 prompt 1 display boot.msg F1 boot.msg F2 help.msg label livecd kernel gentoo append

Hello, I'm trying to fix netbooting and I got quit far. Before this, it reported that it had no root disk, I fixed this by specifying my initrd. Nou it crys's: Kernel panic: I have no root and I want to scream I think I made the mistake whit the creation of the initrd file. What should I put in it except the /linuxrc. I put a echo "TEST" in de /linuxrc to see if it runs, in