On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 04:57:10PM -0400, Seneca wrote: | I am trying to get UML from unstable to work on my system, but the | kernel always panics during boot. I managed to get past the first panic | by setting "root=/home/seneca" or "root=/tmp", but now I get: | | Warning: unable to open an initial console | Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. | | I have tried passing different init values to the kernel, but each time, | I get the same panic of "No init found", or the kernel freezes.
Your "root=" parameter is wrong, which is why /sbin/init can't be
found.
| unable to open /tmp for validation
| cramfs: wrong magic
| read_super_block: can't find a reiserfs filesystem on (dev 62:00, block 16,
size 4096)
| read_super_block: can't find a reiserfs filesystem on (dev 62:00, block 2,
size 4096)
Here's where it's telling you it had problems mounting the root
filesystem (because the root= parameter is wrong).
| VFS: Mounted root (root-hostfs filesystem) readonly.
| Warning: unable to open an initial console.
| Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
And this is the result of it.
I had that same error message on a new machine a while back. The
problem was a typo in my bootloader config. "boot=" doesn't not mean
"root=" :-).
The root= parameter must refer to the device file that refers to the
partition on disk where your root filesystem is located.
HTH,
-D
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