Re: what can I do for debian installer for Alpha?

[stappers@stappers.nl (Geert Stappers)]

On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 10:10:16PM -0400, Neil Roeth wrote:
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> .
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> Freeing unused kernal memory: 192k freed
> Warning: unable to open an initial console.
> attempt to access beyond end of device
> 01:00: rw=0, want=8303, limit=8192
> attempt to access beyond end of device
> 01:00: rw=0, want=8304, limit=8192
> .
> .
> .
> attempt to access beyond end of device
> 01:00: rw=0, want=8310, limit=8192
> Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
> 

Those error look familair to me.

I got the installer started with this kernel bootprompt line:

  vmlinuz initrd=netboot-initrd.gz root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk_size=8192 init=/linuxrc

the init=  is important, you will have to increase the ramdisk size


Geert Stappers