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Re: Official 2.6.8 kernel not booting?



On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 01:16:57PM +0100, Gasper Zejn wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I've apt-get installed an official kernel-image-9-2.6.8-k8 package and 
> rebooted, and i get an "no init found" error, while -k7 kernels work 
> with no problem.
> 
> The grub lines (i've added init=/sbin/init with no luck):
> 
> title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-1-x86_64
> root            (hd0,0)
> kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-1-x86_64 root=/dev/sda1 
> init=/sbin/init ro
> savedefault
> boot
> 
> My system is an amd64 athlon 3000+, nforce3 chipset with maxtor sata hd, 
> the motherboard is gigabyte ga-k8ns.

Where is the ramdisk/initrd line in grub?  You should not have to pass
init=...

Most of the time, 'init not found' is a side effect of the message
'can't mount root filesystem' which is often caused by 'missing initrd
ramdisk'.

Len Sorensen



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