init

[Geert Stappers]

At 15:22 +0100 11/7/01, Cristian CONSTANTIN wrote:
>hi!
>
>tried to boot with pxelinux (through net) 2.4.13-pre3-xfs and the root
>image provided by debian-potato from:
>
>ftp.de.debian.org:/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/root
>.bin
>
>I get:
>
>Kernel panic: No init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel.
>
>(well, /sbin/init seems to be in the right place in root.bin; the error
>appears even after I configure something like init=/sbin/init)
>
>any idea what's the magic behind it?

You have to tell the kernel that you supplied the root.bin


The etherboot utilty "mknbi" does it automagicly when provide a ramdisk


Kind Regards, Geert Stappers
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