[Bootcd-user] bootcd hangs at boot time

[Mark Clarkson]

Hi Rubikz,

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Rubikz wrote:

> With devfs disabled (DEVFS=no) I get errors with reference to my first
> post.
> 
> It stops in middle of booting and hangs 
> 
> VFS: Mounted root (iso 9660 filesystem) readonly
> Mounted devfs on /dev

DEVFS is on in the kernel.
Doesn't matter. Unless...

> Freeing unused kernel memory: 268k freed
> INIT: version 2.84 booting
> Creating extra device nodes ...done.
> Started device management daemon v1.3.25 for /dev

DEVFS is on in your image.
Doesn't matter. Unless...

> Activating swap
> Minimum of needed INODES : (why does it stop here ?)

You should get a number appearing after the colon.
It's just counting the number of files in your /ram1.cpio.gz, and
it gets stuck counting them. Maybe it's choking on the size of the
file - but I don't see why yet. Did you wait for long enough, maybe?

Try FASTBOOT=no and see if this gets any further.

(FASTBOOT=no doesn't work for me anymore, but I'm sure it did before)

Look at the CD on linux and let me know how big your ram1.cpio.gz and
ram2.cpio.gz are as I'd like to test that.

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In your first post you actually got further than this. I really think
you should consider doing something like:

NOT_TO_RAM="/home/rubikz /home/bob /root/more-big-stuff"
RAMDISK_SIZE=16384

Then make sure it fits. That is, don't (i)gnore ram errors.

Then try setting up tmpfs after you're in. Vlado supplied some somewhat
sketchy instructions:

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/bootcd-user/2004-June/000028.html

Make sure you have the latest module-init-tools - the older version
caused Michael Lee problems.

Also, some people have had problems with 2.6 kernels that was solved by
using 2.4 kernels. If you can, try the 2.4.26 kernel.

I personally have only used 2.4 kernels.

Cheers
Mark.