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Topic: Kernel panic: Coudn't find valid RAM disk image

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Posted: Dec. 23 2008,02:39

I have an i-opener with 32MB of RAM and an equally small hard drive (talk about endowment) and would like to get it running. So, I installed DSL to its hard drive by connecting the drive itself to my laptop (through USB) and booting through a virtual box machine. I know, I know, it could be done a bit better, bur hey.

So, I get the splash screen,

and the machine goes for a while acting like it is booting like it should,

but then it stops with the kernel panic message,

Any suggestions for what could be causing that?

RichardG

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Posted: Jan. 03 2009,23:46

First, try to reinstall DSL.
Second, it looks like you installed DSL to hdb, which is 8M sized as the kernel says :rock: (EDIT2: this is a flash chip).

EDIT: After reviewing the topic, I noticed that you installed DSL with VirtualBox.

EDIT2: I deleted some text after I noticed iOpeners uses 44-pin IDE connectors.
Why don't use the main HDD and Opener's CD drive (if it has one) with the boot floppy (if it can't boot off CDs)?

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Posted: Jan. 14 2009,11:56

I do not know how much you know about the i-opener, but it does not come with a HD as it was originally designed to be a thin client of sorts. You have to make a cable (it does not have the standard IDE pinout even though it is IDE) to use a hard drive. The cable I got only has an end as it expected to connect to a 2.5" HD which would be attached somehow (emphasis on the somehow) inside the case. Also, this machine cannot boot off its USB port; bios does not support that.

So, what I did was boot dsl through virtualbox, without hd and off dsl'd iso, feeding the 2.5" HD as a usb drive. And then installed dsl to that drive. Then, move drive back to the i-opener and hope for the best.

I know all the above is not relevant to the original question -- what could be causing the kernel panic as it tries to create a ramdisk -- but I just thought it may help understand the setup.

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