Won't boot: RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid ram disk image...

Temfate · n00b Joined: 24 Feb 2004 Posts: 9

I've installed gentoo several times in the past, but this one has me going crazy... I think it's something with the change to a 2.6 kernel and the udev. First off I use /dev/hda2 as a universal mount at / in the filesystem. My grub.conf file is pretty straight forward:

timeout 30
default 0

splashimage=(hd0,1)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title Gentoo Linux
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r3 root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/hda2 init=/linuxrc ramdisk_size=8192 vga=0x317 splash=verbose
initrd /boot/kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r3

And when I boot I just get:

RAMDISK: Couldn't find a valid ram disk image starting at 0.

I used genkernel --udev all as suggested in the manual, I've also tried just genkernel all to see if it made a difference, nope...

Any ideas? I'd really prefer to use a genkernel as I want everything loadable at some point...

nixnut · Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 6:57 pm Post subject:

Try appending udev to the kernel line in grub.conf
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Temfate · n00b Joined: 24 Feb 2004 Posts: 9

Sorry I didn't say, I did do that, I tried it with udev in the line, I tried it with devfs in the line (recompiling for devfs), I tried everything I could think of... As a temporary solution I have maunally configured a linux kernel and that works as expected, but something is severly wrong with the documentation instructions on the current universal disc for a dual cpu machine (what I'm running this on).

Any other ideas?