Re: pivot_root: No such file or directory

[conover@rahul.net (John Conover)]

John Conover writes:
> 
> I've installed Knoppix 3.6 on an Omnibook 800CT, and on the first boot
> after installation the kernel panics with a "pivot_root: No such file
> or directory" message, (followed by /sbin/init: 426: cannot open
> dev/console: No such file.)
>

Apologies for replying to myself.

FWIW, after some piddling, the problem was in lilo.conf generated by
knoppix-installer:

image=/boot/vmlinuz
        label="Linux"
        initrd=/boot/initrd.img
        append="load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1 root=/dev/fd0 rw ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off nomce xmodule=vesa lang=us"
                                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        read-only

Removing the root statement fixes the boot problem, and Knoppix 3.6
boots on a 12 year old HP 800CT Omnibook.

      John

BTW, the machine is a 4G HD, 80 Mb, 133 MHz. Pentium, floppy,
non-bootable SCSI, with the Knoppix 3.6 CD in the CD-ROM on SCSI.

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John Conover, conover@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/