FAI, RAID, booting

[Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn]

On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 pll at lanminds.com wrote:

> My lilo.conf file looks like:
>
> 	lba32
> 	boot=/dev/md1
> 	root=/dev/md0
> 	map=/boot/map
> 	delay=20
> 	vga=normal
> 	default=l2419
>
> 	image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19
> 	        label=l2419
> 	        read-only
> 	        root=/dev/md0
>
>
> When the system boots, lilo is able to find everything, the RAID
> sets are found and sync'ed, yet it kernel panics at the very end of
> the boot sequence:
>
>     Warning: unable to open an initial console
>     Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.

Take a look at this:

  http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Boot+Root+Raid+LILO-3.html#ss3.1


hth,
Cristian