Re: Kernel panic - init not found. Please help !!

["Paul J. Keenan" <paul@funkiest.demon.co.uk>]

On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 08:52:53AM -0800, Mahesh Padmanabhan wrote:
> Hello All,

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> The 2.2.14 kernel starts ok but right after :
> 
> Freeing unused kernel memory : 36k freed
> 
> it says:
> 
> Kernel panic. init not found. Pass init= option to the
> kernel.

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> #
> # General setup
> #

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> # CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF is not set
> CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=y

I would turn on CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF.  I know the docs say that if you
have CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC set, you don't need CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF, but 
I recently got exactly the same result from switching to 
CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC.  I am also using a 2.2.14 kernel.

Hope that helps.

-- 
Regards,
Paul