Aaron Davies wrote: > I've completed the basic installation from the rescue floppy ramdisk, > but when I turn the ramdisk off and tell BootX to boot with /dev/sda5 > (my Linux native partition) as root, I get the following error message: > > Kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. > Rebooting in 180 seconds.. > > What does this mean and what can I do about it?
When you boot, does the "Partition check" for that drive list your partition? Later, does it say something like "Mounting root partition read-only"? Does it add the swap partition successfully? When you boot with the ramdisk, you should be able to mount your existing Linux partition(s). Then you can use alt-F2 to switch to a different console and open a shell (and switch back to the install console with alt-F1). "df" will verify that the partitions are where you say they are (your installed root partition should be mounted as /target/). Then do "ls target/sbin" and you should see init. It shouldn't be necessary to pass an "init=" parameter. I'm not an expert on these things, this is the best I can do without being at the machine, but there's probably someone here who knows what else could be going wrong. Hope this helps in some small way, -Adam P.
