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Re: Kernel panic: NO INIT FOUND, but seems to be there.



On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 05:21:23PM +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote:
| On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 15:08, Alessandro Ghigi wrote:

| > Kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.

Hey, cool (sorta) -- someone else has this problem too.  I've got a
kernel that does this too.  I will look at my machine again soon since
I just got back from the weekend.

| This is very strange! Especially to happen twice! What are you doing to
| your system?

I've only seen this once.  In my case I am trying to install debian
(woody) on a brand new machine.  

| Is the filesystem that the kernel is mounting as root really the
| root filesystem? Or is it mounting another filesystem thinking it is
| root? Is sbin in that filesystem? Try passing the root= parameter to
| the kernel as well with the root partition. eg. linux root=/dev/hda3
| init=/sbin/init.

I used the potato installer, then dist-upgraded (as I have done on
other machines before).  The 2.2 kernel can boot just fine.  None of
the 2.4 kernels I've tried work.  One of them gives the error
Alessandro is seeing.  I find this thread very interesting since I'm
encountering the same issue.

| What were you doing before this happened? Was it a kernel upgrade
| gone wrong?

Something or other like that.  After upgrading to woody, I installed a
2.4 kernel.  Then I built my own 2.4 kernel and installed it.  I also
installed the -bf2.4 kernel.  None of them boot.  Two don't like the
root= param and one can't find init.

-D

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