Comment 10 for bug 22107

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Fabio Massimo Di Nitto (fabbione) wrote : Re: Breezy RC missing dmraid support needed to access SATA raids

(In reply to comment #8)
> (In reply to comment #6)
> > It won't work. dmraid build on top of klibc is not working yet.
> >
> > Fabio
>
> I still don't quite get klibc. It sounds to me more like it is a smaller
> version of libc so is handy for building small initramfs, but is not required to
> build a working initramfs. I went ahead and put it in my initramfs image only
> the kernel does not seem to be using the initramfs. What do you have to pass
> boot= as to tell the kernel to use the initramfs? I have lilo configured for
> initrd=/boot/my_initramfs and when the kernel starts up, it reports a ram disk
> found at block 0, but then panics saying it can't mount the root device.
>
>

This is going way offtopic for this bug. klibc is sort of a smaller glibc, but
different
implementation. The kernel does use initramfs. The error you get is because the
image
you created is borken.

Anything else should move to ubuntu support mailing list.

Fabio