Re: Kernel panic: NO INIT FOUND, but seems to be there.
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 08:08:41PM -0500, dman wrote:
> 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
>
Okay, perhaps I am getting ahead of myself, but did you run lilo after
upgrading to the new kernel?
I know it's silly to suggest this, but you won't believe how often
people forget this basic step :-}.
-Andy
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