Sorry to bother you about this but after trashing 8 CD-Rs I'm out if ideas :-). I've not been able to get this working with anything other than the standard Slackware kernels.... I made a copy of the Slackware 'live' reference filesystem CD (8.0), added my own 2.2.16 kernel with crypto, then wrote the CD, as per the instructions. I've checked and double checked all the options, ramdisk support, iso filesystems, even used the kernel config files from the slackware CD. The thing always comes up with the error 'unable to mount root fs 01:00' etc... It seems to load the ramdisk OK. Do I need to rdev the kernel if using isolinux? i thought that's not necessary. Do I need to specify the right ramdisk size? Is there something fundamental that prevents use of a ram disk in a crypto-anabled kernel? Does 2.2.16 not work with isolinux for some reason (it's the last 2.2.X kernel to have proper crypto support). Any help would really be appreciated (even if this isn't strictly an isolinux problem. The same kernel boots fine from Lilo off the hard-disk. -Simon. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards? http://movies.yahoo.com/
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 13:33:51 -0800 (PST), Mr Simon Harrison <si1356 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:>Sorry to bother you about this but after trashing >8 CD-Rs I'm out if ideas :-).Use CD-RWs !>kernel config files from the slackware CD. The >thing always comes up with the error 'unable to mount >root fs 01:00' etc... It seems to load the ramdisk >OK.01:00 is the ramdisk, so maybe it does not find the initrd or cannot load it into ramdisk.>Do I need to rdev the kernel if using isolinux?No need if you setup the config file correctly.>thought that's not necessary. Do I need to specify >the right ramdisk size?No.>Any help would really be appreciated (even if this >isn't >strictly an isolinux problem. The same kernel boots >fine from Lilo off the hard-disk.You could show your isolinux.cfg. However, if you can't solve your isolinux problems and just want to boot off a CD, and don't have space issues, you can make the CD bootable using a boot floppy image (be it syslinux, lilo, grub based). -- giulioo at pobox.com