Bizarre initrd problem on CLLF860T

[Graham Stoney]

Marcus Sundberg writes:
> > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
> > VFS: Cannot open root device 00:00
> > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00
>
> Looks like the initrd is sucessfully mounted, then /linuxrc is either
> executed quietly or fails to be executed. In either case the bootup
> continues, and fails to mount the real root device because it is not
> set to anything useful.

Yes, but I'm confused as to why...

> How is your bootup supposed to work? If you want to use the initrd
> as the real root file system you should pass root=/dev/ram to
> the kernel.

I'm just trying to boot to a standalone shell; I have no /linuxrc in my initrd,
and I do want to use the initrd as the real root file system. Also, I have:

    Boot arguments: root=/dev/ram

So it looks to me as though it _should_ work; but why is it trying to remount
device 00:00?  The ramdisk is supposed to be 01:00.

Mucho confusedo,
Graham

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