[pocket-linux] v2.1 Chapter 3 - Unable to open initial console

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Hi Stefan,

I had also troubles using a ramdisk at the start. The reason was that SuSE 8.2 
was using ramdisks of size 64MB.

So to solve this problem you have to use the following lines 

># Clear the ramdrive
>dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram7 bs=1k count=4096
>
># Create the efs2
>mke2fs -m0 /dev/ram7 4096

The number 4096 used when creating a e2fs makes the size of the filesystem 
4096. If you don't use that value, it wil try to figure out the size of the 
ramdrive which was in my case 64 MB.

However, I find it strange that you have arrived to the console.
My error messages where like this...

>VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press ENTER
>RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
>RAMDISK:  Incomplete write (-28 != 32768) 4194304
>VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER

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