Linux on RAM

Hi,

I'm working on testing a Linux system on coldfire 5485. I have the Freescale BSP, based on 2.6.10 kernel, and an evaluation board for 5485.

until now, I have work with root filesystem on NFS or on Flash (jffs2). Now, I need a system _exclusively_ on RAM (kernel and filesystem), but I have some problems...

I work with a bootloader named Colilo (Coldfire Lilo).

In kernel compilation options, I have the choice between "cramfs" and "ext2.gz Ramdisk" for a RAM root filesystem.

I have tried to use "ext2.gz Ramdisk". In this case, compilation create kernel "vmlinux.bin" (2.6Mo) and the filesystem "rootfs.ext2.gz" (3Mo, 9Mo unziped).

I have set following supports in kernel configuration :

RAM disk support (5) Default number of RAM disks (12288) Default RAM disk size (kbytes) [*] Initial RAM disk (initrd) support Second extended fs support [*] Ext2 extended attributes ROM file system support [*] /dev file system support [*] Virtual memory file system support [*] tmpfs Extended Attributes

Next, I have done :

- put "rootfs.ext2.gz" on RAM (0x02000000)

- put kernel "vmlinux.bin" on RAM (0x1000)

- command line of colilo : "root=/dev/ram0 rootfstype=ext2.gz initrd=0x02000000 ramdisk_size=12288 load_ramdisk=1 keepinitrd"

- boot on kernel (g 0x2000)

"starting up linux rev 0.2: startmem 0xc022c000, size 125MB [...] Memory: 127848k/131072k available (1568k kernel code, 1384k data, 80k init) [...] devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch ( snipped-for-privacy@atnf.csiro.au) devfs: devfs_debug: 0x0 devfs: boot_options: 0x1 [...] RAMDISK driver initialized: 5 RAM disks of 12288K size 1024 blocksize [...] VFS: Cannot open root device "ram0" or unknown-block(1,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown- block(1,0)"

Please, could you explain me how can I have my system on RAM ? How make kernel to see the rootfs ?

Thanks for help, Pk

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