init

[Geert Stappers]

At 18:49 +0100 11/7/01, Cristian CONSTANTIN wrote:
>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??
>
Geert: That is usefull information you could have told before.
With the information I have now, seems you have
a working ( home brew ) root image
and a broken root image. A corrupt download???????

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stappers at mir:~
$ file /pub/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/root.bin
/pub/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/root.bin: gzip
compressed data, deflated, last modified: Wed Jul  5 16:07:48 2000, max
compression, os: Unix
stappers at mir:~
$
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Kind Regards, Geert Stappers
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