Re: Minimum initrd to satisfy init

2006-11-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Name Withheld wrote: > Can anyone tell me, or point me towards something that will explain > what is the minimum I need to put into an initrd image to satisfy init > and complete the boot process? > > I have a kernel that I can load into an old i386,

RE: minimum initrd to satisfy init

2006-11-04 Thread Name Withheld
recap: kernel fails boot proccess at the point where /sbin/init 'should' execute, kernel panic, results. In a most excellent article by Richard Ferri in Linux Journal: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5465 it was explained that I needed to execute '/dev/MAKEDEV console' in the directory o

Re: Minimum initrd to satisfy init

2006-11-04 Thread maximilian attems
On Sat, 04 Nov 2006, Name Withheld wrote: > Can anyone tell me, or point me towards something that will explain what > is the minimum I need to put into an initrd image to satisfy init and > complete the boot process? so i guess you are using initrd-tools it's support for nfs root is very limi

Re: Minimum initrd to satisfy init

2006-11-03 Thread Eugen Paiuc
Hi, What processor is in ? If prior 486 try woody. New debian kernels don't support less 486 processors. regards Eugen Paiuc On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 00:24 -0500, Name Withheld wrote: > Can anyone tell me, or point me towards something that will explain what is > the minimum I need to put into

Minimum initrd to satisfy init

2006-11-03 Thread Name Withheld
Can anyone tell me, or point me towards something that will explain what is the minimum I need to put into an initrd image to satisfy init and complete the boot process? I have a kernel that I can load into an old i386, that fails at the point where it tries to open /dev/console, and fails to