Re: 2.3.14 kernel bootdisk
Colin, I would suggest you change your mailer to use no more than 80
columns... 76 or so seems standard.
As for the exact reason why your kernel panicked, I can't say. However, IU
have *never* needed to specify init=anything. It could just be me.,. :) but,
most people seem to boot their kernel with lines more like:
root=/dev/fd0
if you want to use the floppy for your root filesystem.
Of course, I ahven't been through your steps, but .. it just seems to me
that the init= bit isn't quite right.
<shrug>
On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 02:12:47AM -0500, mcmi0037@tc.umn.edu wrote:
> I have a friend who has only win98 installed on her computer. she would
> like linux instead, but the 2.0 and 2.2 kernels do not have support for
> her hard drive controller (the stock debian install from bootable CD
> "cannot find any devices" on which to install). so, i compiled her a
> 2.3.14 kernel, which I tested out on my own computer. It boots perfectly
> (or as near as can be expected, considering it wasn't built for my
> hardware...) I used rawrite from her windows box to write resc1440.bin
> (from slink, by the way) to a disk. i then copied the bzImage from the new
> kernel onto the disk, renamed it to "linux", and ran ./rdev.sh. I wasn't
> sure if I needed the drivers floppy, so I made one anyways.
>
> I inserted the disk into her computer and rebooted... pressed enter, and
> it loaded the kernel fine, and went through all the hardware-detection
> stuff without error. However, once it was done with that, I got a "Kernel
> panic: could not find init. Try passing the init= option to the kernel".
>
> I am totally at a loss for what I should be doing here... I tried
> init=/dev/ram, init=/dev/ram0, init=/dev/hdc (with CD in drive),
> init=/dev/hda, init=/dev/hda1, and even init=/dev/fd0. Does anyone have
> any ideas on what I can do to fix this error? (By the way, it's not
> specific to her computer, I get the same error when trying the disk on two
> other computers.)
>
> I also made sure to enable ramdisk, initrd, elf executables, minixfs,
> ext2fs, msdosfs, vfatfs, iso9660fs, and loopback devices support in the
> new kernel.
>
> Help, anyone?
>
> Colin McMillen -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1: 1 hour, 5 minutes without a
> reboot... The revolution will be complete when the operating system is
> perfect. (www.debian.org, www.enlightenment.org, www.opensource.org)
>
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