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b0fh
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 Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2003 7:51 pm Post subject: "init not found" with 2.4.22, 2.6.0 works fine |
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I've got 2.6.0 on a machine working, but I'm not so happy with it because of kernel panics because of interrupt-problems. So I'd like to switch back to 2.4.22. Okay, now the problem: Because of the too big harddrive (not recognized by bios) I have to boot of floppy (did a grub bootdisk, 2.6.0 kernel loads fine). I compiled 2.4.22 (yes, I said "automatically mont at boot" to devfs), copied it to that disk, kernel loads fine, but then:
| Code: | Kernel panic. init not found. Pass init= option to the
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So I did mkinitrd on another machine, copied the file to my boot-floppy, and passed init=/bla to my kernel in grub.conf - same error. So what to do? How can I boot 2.4.22 from my floppy? |
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b0fh
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| Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2003 7:56 am Post subject: |
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| Also tried creating a bootdisk with "dd" and "rdev" for 2.4.22, same problem. Can't be that difficult creating a bootdisk for 2.4.22, right? |
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eunuque
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| Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2003 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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I have the same problem as you with my 2.4.22 kernel.
The surprising thing is that this error doesn't happened with the gentoo
kernel. Here is part of my grub.conf:
| Code: | title=Kernel 2.4.22
root (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel_2.4.22 root=/dev/hda3
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd
title=Kernel Gentoo 2.4.20 custom
root (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/gentoo_custom root=/dev/hda3
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd |
The Gentoo kernel boots fine whereas the 2.4.22 gives my the
same error as you.
It makes my think that it may come from a kernel compile option,
or a patch applied to the Gentoo kernel.
I heard about the CONFIG_VT stuff in the kernel options, which I
enabled but it still doesn't work.
Do you know more about it? |
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eunuque
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| Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2003 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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Have you tried the --nopivot option of mkinitrd ?
I got the same message as you and the problem was that my reiserfs fs was not recognized without this option. |
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b0fh
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| Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2003 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, another thing for mkinitrd: It needs something from /lib/modules/version, right? Well, my kernel has no modules in it so normally doesn't create this dir. So what to do? Just compile some modules I don't need? |
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