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[Mikhail Pronine]

Hi,

i have some advances since i posted my message to this
mailing list on April 30.
Maybe my experience will be interesting for somebody.
In short, i reported about my problems with the root
disk from Chapter 3.
I was running kernel 2.4.10 and using  the SuSE
distribution.
I installed the Debian (woody) distribution some time
ago. So i decided
to use it to study the pocket linux guide. The
kernel's version is  2.4.18.

I used the .config file with the following options
showed by 'grep "^CONFIG" .config'

CONFIG_X86=y
CONFIG_ISA=y
CONFIG_UID16=y
CONFIG_M386=y
CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=4
CONFIG_RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK=y
CONFIG_X86_PPRO_FENCE=y
CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y
CONFIG_KCORE_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=4096
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=y
CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK=y
CONFIG_FAT_FS=y
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y
CONFIG_TMPFS=y
CONFIG_RAMFS=y
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_NLS=y
CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="iso8859-1"
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y

i omit here all options that are commented out in the
actual config file.
Some options are redundant (for example,
CONFIG_REISERFS_FS, CONFIG_FAT_FS and so on).
Maybe it would be interesting to figure out the
minimum set of options needed
to work with the guide.

I compiled the kernel with this config file and used
it with the guide.
I encountered no further problems and successfully
went through all the chapters!
(With the exception of the appendix (mp3blaster). I
didn't really try it. I am afraid
my sound card via8233 is not supported by the kernel
and 
i use the alsa drivers instead.)

Now, i tried the same config file with the 2.4.10
kernel under SuSE. 
The config file was copied to the .config file in the
corresponding directory. 
I made no changes in 'make menuconfig' and said yes to
'save config file'.
The config file was slightly changed now.

CONFIG_X86=y
CONFIG_ISA=y
CONFIG_UID16=y
CONFIG_M386=y
CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=4
CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y
CONFIG_NO_PAGE_VIRTUAL=y
CONFIG_KCORE_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y
CONFIG_CIPHER_TWOFISH=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=4096
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=y
CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK=y
CONFIG_FAT_FS=y
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y
CONFIG_TMPFS=y
CONFIG_RAMFS=y
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_NLS=y
CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="iso8859-1"
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y

The kernel was compiled but the problem described in
my previous message remained.
It was impossible to use the root disk with the
ramdisk.

best regards,
Mikhail


	
		
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