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Re: Install Debian/armel with a custom kernel



* M.Oner <tenroh@o2.pl> [2009-04-08 12:52]:
> but instead of using uimage of initrd, I have added "root=/dev/sdb1 rw"  
> to bootargs, where sdb1 is a partition where I have unpacked (gzip+cpio)  
> initrd.gz with Debian's netinstall.
>
> My ARM machine (Lacie NAS) loads kernel perfectly, but startup process  
> ends here:
>
> [...]
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) on device 8:17.
> Freeing init memory: 136K
> Setting up filesystem, please wait ...
> pivot_root: Not a directory
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

afaik initramfs-tools expects a ramdisk and doesn't work with a
filesystem on disk.

-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/


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