Kernel panic. No init found

[Vincent Laisney <vincent.laisney@gmx.net>]

Hi debs!

I have installed Debian Potato 2.2.19pre9 on my laptop. Everything was well,
but I had no APM support. I have tried to recompile the Kernel with

make menuconfig
make-kpkg kernel_image
dpkg -i ../<my package>.deb

But wenn I have rebooted I have got a message
"Kernel panic no init found. You can give at boot the option init= ..."

The worst is that I get this message for my old (and correct) Kernel, wenn I
boot with on the vmlinuz.old

Yes, I have read in the Archives of this List that the solution is to add
apm=on on the boot line or add the line append "apm=on" in lilo.conf. It's a
pity to read this too late...

Can somebody help me and give me the data to put after "init=" ?
Why can I not boot from my old kernel?

Thank you very much

Vincent Laisney (Berlin, and France)

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