Re: smaller ramdisk

Subject: Re: smaller ramdisk
From: Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Date: Thu Aug 19 1999 - 15:19:50 MDT

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Did you build the kernel/ramdisk? I just provided the ramdisk, and not the
kernel.. I'll have that soon, but I wanted to get it out the door for
people that wanted to roll their own.

On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Mike Rutherford wrote:

> Dan -
>
> I tried using the smaller ramdisk image file today on an
> rs6000/p43/model 150 box. I'm not real sure I did this right, but
> reading some other posts, I copied the gz file to diskette and tried:
>
> - boot while holding F8
> - at '>' prompt, typing: setenv boot-device floppy:\zimage
> - after above, typing: boot
>
> The system chews on the diskette for a while but I eventually end up
> with an error:
>
> unrecognized Client Program formatstate not valid
>
> Do you, or anybody know what I'm doing wrong here?
>
> --
> Mike Rutherford
> Raleigh NC
>

Dan

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