failing to boot from mfsroot.gz

From: Richard P. Williamson (richard.williamson_at_u4eatech.com)
Date: 06/30/04

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    Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 14:11:07 +0100
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    Hello all,

    I have a 4.8 system that booted from flash using a kernel.gz and mfsroot.gz.
    The ethernet parts were not fully supported by the fxp driver in 4.8,
    so I was testing 4.10 to see if they were with that version of the OS.

    I've replace the kernel.gz with a 4.10 version, and the mfsroot.gz
    is built using 4.10 objects. If I try to boot it, this is what I
    get:

    ...
    md0: Preloaded mfs_root "/mfsroot> 50331648 bytes at 0xc02b2794
    md1: malloc disk
    ...
    sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 in isa0
    sio0: type 16550A, console
    sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
    sio1: type 16550A
    vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3b0-0x3bb iomem 0xb0000-0xb7ffff on isa0
    ad0: 30MB <SanDisk SDCFB-32> [490/4/32] at ata0-master PI01
    Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0c

    And then nothing. Nada. Zip.

    No kernel panic message, no prompt, nothing.

    Which leaves me in a bit of a pickle as to what to try.

    If I use a 4.10 kernel with a 4.8 mfsroot.gz, it boots,
    but tells me that proc is out of sync with the kernel.

    Help?!

    TIA

    rip

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