initrd problem: unable to read from /dev/initrd

[Tom Rini]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 07:30:51AM -0700, Rahul Dev wrote:

>
> Dear all,
>
>     I m using  ads m8260 board and trying to run  linux2.5.9  over it.
[snip]
> On analyzing , i found  that the ramdisk image was loaded properly at
> 0xa00000,
> but in the function  "identify_ramdisk_image()" when i try to read the
> first block from
> /dev/initrd, i could read only  16 bytes correctly, rest all bytes are
> junk.
> Can anybody please point out why am i read  only first 16 bytes
> correctly from /dev/initrd.

Don't use 2.5.9.  If you really must have 2.5, use the current 2.5.  And
it's quite probable that you want to be using 2.4.* anyhow.

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