On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 12:16:01AM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote:
| On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 08:08:41PM -0500, dman wrote:
| > On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 05:21:23PM +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote:
| > | On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 15:08, Alessandro Ghigi wrote:
| >
| > | > Kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
| >
| > Hey, cool (sorta) -- someone else has this problem too. I've got a
| > kernel that does this too. I will look at my machine again soon since
| > I just got back from the weekend.
| >
| > | This is very strange! Especially to happen twice! What are you doing to
| > | your system?
| >
| > I've only seen this once. In my case I am trying to install debian
| > (woody) on a brand new machine.
| >
| > | Is the filesystem that the kernel is mounting as root really the
| > | root filesystem? Or is it mounting another filesystem thinking it is
| > | root? Is sbin in that filesystem? Try passing the root= parameter to
| > | the kernel as well with the root partition. eg. linux root=/dev/hda3
| > | init=/sbin/init.
| >
| > I used the potato installer, then dist-upgraded (as I have done on
| > other machines before). The 2.2 kernel can boot just fine. None of
| > the 2.4 kernels I've tried work. One of them gives the error
| > Alessandro is seeing. I find this thread very interesting since I'm
| > encountering the same issue.
| >
| > | What were you doing before this happened? Was it a kernel upgrade
| > | gone wrong?
| >
| > Something or other like that. After upgrading to woody, I installed a
| > 2.4 kernel. Then I built my own 2.4 kernel and installed it. I also
| > installed the -bf2.4 kernel. None of them boot. Two don't like the
| > root= param and one can't find init.
|
| Okay, perhaps I am getting ahead of myself, but did you run lilo after
| upgrading to the new kernel?
No, I use grub :-).
| I know it's silly to suggest this, but you won't believe how often
| people forget this basic step :-}.
I can imagine. I've forgotten simple steps plenty of times before.
Actually, I managed to correct my (PEBKAC) problem with a different
kernel, so the issue isn't an issue anymore.
For Alessandro : try installing a new kernel on the system and using
that. Maybe there's something weird about the kernel you are trying
now and the one that I had with this error message. Hmm, I wonder if
you (and I) really had/have the right root= parameter. Double and
triple check it. In my case (with the other kernel, at least) it was
an issue of making a typo in the word "root".
HTH,
-D
--
Misfortune pursues the sinner,
but prosperity is the reward for the righteous.
Proverbs 13:21
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