[BusyBox] Help with initial ramdisk problem

[Torrey Hoffman]

Chris Carbaugh wrote:
> I trying to change the size of my initial ram drive image from 8mb to
> 16mb.  I follow the same process to create the 16mb image as I use for
> the 8mb image.  The 8mb image boots no problem, the 16mb image fails
> with this:
> 
> RAMDSIK: couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0
> Freeing initrd memory: 1723k freed
> FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
> Kernel panic" VFS" Unable to mount root fs on 01:00
> 
> The system is based on busybox .60.2, 4.7 kernel, and syslinux 1.65

If the system you *build* the ramdisk image on uses a kernel with
version number between 2.4.10 and 2.4.17 inclusive, you may be 
creating a corrupted ramdisk.  This kernel bug was fixed in
2.4.18 pre something...  

That might not be your problem, but it's a possibility...

Torrey Hoffman