Re: Loading initrd from FAT partition fails silently?

[Bill Gribble]

On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 08:29:17AM -0500,  wrote:
> One hint might be that the root image file is intended to be put on
> a floppy disk and was created by 'dd' so it's exactly the size of a
> 1.44M disk (1474560 bytes).  Will the initrd load process fail if
> the size of compressed data is not identical to the size of the
> file?

Answer: yes.  

I fixed the image file by un-gzipping and re-gzipping on a Linux
machine, then specifying the resulting (smaller) file for my initrd
image.  It works (i.e. I'm able to boot with the initrd as my /).

At the least, I think GRUB should report an error when it fails to load an
initrd.  In this case, the failure must be a "sanity check" on the size
of the compressed file; that could be easily reported to the user.

Thanks,
Bill Gribble