init

[Cristian CONSTANTIN]

On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 04:06:14PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote:
> 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
> 

cristian: o.k. and how comes then that it boots the same kernel but with
other root image; which I created myself??

bye now!
-- 
 _          | There are many people who use UNIX or Linux  
(_'_        | who IMHO do not understand UNIX.
  (_'rist   |              --David Korn  
GPG public key at https://www.mobile-ip.de/~crist/constantin.key
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 232 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/attachments/20011107/d2a50119/attachment.bin