no init found

[taojones]

hi installing gentoo on an oldworld system. get this message:

kernel panic: no init found. try passing init= option to kernel


in bootX there's already a kernel argument:

ramdisk_size=8192

how and what do I add to this?

I tried:

ramdisk_size=8192 init /bin/bash

and:

ramdisk_size=8192 init=/bin/bash

but neither improved the situation(same error)

Michael

[taojones]

to follow up on my own post...

I have a copy of initrd.img.gz in system folder->Linux Kernels along with vmlinux and System.map

I point BootX to this initrd.img.gz by clicking Use Specified RAM Disk...

hope this clears things up..
Michael