Loadlin 1.6C problem when installing Novell Linux Desktop 9
From: Dennis Peere (sycrontw_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/14/05
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Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:26:05 +0200
Hi,
I'm trying to perform an automated harddisk installation of NLD 9 but seem
to have problems loading initrd with loadlin 1.6C.
The original initrd deliverd on CD1 of NLD is 5706806 bytes and I think
that's too big for loadlin 1.6C.
When I boot in FREEDOS and start loadlin I use the following command
LOADLIN LINUX initrd=INITRD ramdisk_size=65536 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc
It ends with the following error message :
RAMDISk: Compressed image found at block 0
Invalid compressed format (err=2)
VFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem) readonly
Freeing unused kernel memory: 212K freed
I've tried the following commands, without success, to start loadlin :
LOADLIN LINUX INITRD=INITRD ramdisk_size=65536
LOADLIN linux initrd=initrd init=/linuxrc
LOADLIN linux initrd=initrd init=/linuxrc root=/dev/ram0
I've used the same loadlin version to install RedHat 8.0 and RHES 4 without
any problems.
Although I must say that the initrd.img's were smaller on RH (2711963 bytes
for RH8 and 3092868 bytes for RHES4)
If I boot from CD1 and start the installation, the following modules are
loaded during installation :
Module Size Used by
reiserfs 241488 1
edd 9368 0
dm_snapshot 16796 0
dm_mod 50300 1 dm_snapshot
multipath 7688 0
raid6 98576 0
raid5 20736 0
xor 15240 2 raid6,raid5
raid1 14848 0
raid0 8192 0
parport_pc 35520 0
parport 37832 1 parport_pc
usb_storage 60096 0
uhci_hcd 29200 0
hid 40896 0
ehci_hcd 27908 0
usbcore 103644 6 usb_storage,uhci_hcd,hid,ehci_hcd
ide_cd 36740 0
sg 35616 0
sr_mod 16292 0
sd_mod 20224 0
scsi_mod 108876 4 usb_storage,sg,sr_mod,sd_mod
cdrom 36892 2 ide_cd,sr_mod
cramfs 42868 1
vfat 14208 2
fat 43584 1 vfat
af_packet 20872 0
nvram 8456 0
I've tried to mount the initrd (from the NLD cd's) and removed all modules
that weren't loaded during the cd installation.
The result was an initrd of 2056532 bytes
When I started loadlin with that initrd I got the following error mesages
with every module the kernel want to load :
. on VT3
insmod: error inserting '/modules/reiserfs.ko': -1 Invalid module format
insmod: error inserting '/modules/eepro100.ko': -1 Invalid module format
.
. on VT4
ehci_hcd: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
uhci_hcd: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
.
After giving up on trying to find out what modules I needed to put in the
initrd I started looking for an alternative program for loadlin that can
mount the original initrd and found
Tiny.exe => http://sourceforge.net/projects/gujin/
Used that with the following command : tiny.exe linux initrd root=/dev/ram0
ramdisk_size=65536 init=/linuxrc
Error message : Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to
kernel.
linld.com => http://195.66.192.168/linux/linld/
Used that with the followinc command : linld.com image=linux initrd=initrd
cl=nld.par
nld.par includes : ramdisk_size=65536 install=hd://suse/nld/cd1
autoyast=file:///mounts/extra/autoinst.xml
Error message : -1 Invalid module format for every module it wants to load.
Hope someone can help me out :-(
Regards,
Dennis Peere
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