Re: kernel problem: Booting with initrd and init fails

[Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>]

Goswin Brederlow <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
> I have the following entry in my syslinux.cfg:

> LABEL demo
>         APPEND vga=0x791 load_ramdisk=1 initrd=root.bin init=/bin/ash
>         KERNEL linux

> That should load a ramdisk during boot but startx /bin/ash instead of
> /sbin/init or /linuxrc. Instead it will startx /linuxrc and if that
> and /sbin/init are missing it tries to remount / as specified in the
> kernel.

I've never used syslinux myself, but initrd= is interpreted by linload and not
the kernel.
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