On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 05:08:50PM -0500, eric k. wolven wrote: > Fellow debians: > > Up until now I have had no problems compiling kernels. I used the latest > "make-kpkg" on the downloaded kernel-source-2.2.15, dpkg'd it, lilo reports > successful install and on re-boot I get the following message: > > "kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-464c, errno 8" > Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init=option to kernel." > > > Can anybody give me a clue as to what is going on and how to fix it? I'm a > relative newbie.
Boot from a rescue disk and rebuild your kernel. You want to be careful about what you make as modules. Specifically, don't make ELF executables a module. -- Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor. Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be waiting Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day. Netscum, Bane of Elves.