Re: Building a 2.6.30 kernel that does NOT require initrd

[Andrew Perrin <clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu>]

On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have not used grub2, however- I will ask others on the list--
>
> If you are compiling (most) everything into the image itself, you probably 
> don't need the insmod line below and I am not sure you want the search
> line either.
>
> menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, Linux 2.6.30 (recovery mode)" {
>  insmod ext2 <- Remove
>  set root=(hd0,1)
>  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 19ee8fc7-d4b5-4ea3-86d9-eba7bf3b857e
>  linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30 root=/dev/sda1 ro single }
>
> Please try the following instead:
>
> menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, Linux 2.6.30" {
>  set root=(hd0,1)
>  linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30 root=/dev/sda1 ro
> }

Same problem - no text scrolls by, the first (and last) thing on the 
screen is:

Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to 
kernel.


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