The initrd (Initial RAM Disk) is used to load a temporary filesystem into memory in the boot process of a linux kernel.
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How do I get an initrd made out of a cpio archive loaded as the root device by grub2 in a distro-agnostic way?
I'm building an LFS (Linux From Scratch) system in a VM and so far I've managed to get a workable, desktop system, booting from a known device, /dev/sda1 in my case. I'm now trying to make a live system that boots from an ISO image. Instead of using…
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Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 66326416
I have a linux image customized based on Centos 5.8
This linux-image was installing well till recently. Of late, the installation is failing with the error:
"Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 66326416" and series of such messages…
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