Kernel panic : No init found.

[TomV]

Hello,
yesterday I tried to install Gentoo on my old laptop (P2/233, 96MB). I've configured and compiled kernel as allways, with Gentoo-specific options suggested in the Handbook, but every boot attempt crashed on this :

Kernel panic : No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.

I tried either 2.6 (2.6.5-mm1) and 2.4 (2.4.25-gentoo) kernel, both with the same result. I lost almost two days trying to fix it, but I was unable to find out, what did I forget... I'm not a Linux beginner, but this is the first time I see this message.

Thanks a lot for any idea...

[Sven Vermeulen]

If you have used genkernel to compile your kernel, make sure that your bootloader has the init=/linuxrc statement, that root=/dev/ram0 and real_root points to your root partition.

If you haven't used genkernel, make sure that root points to your root partition.

Even better: tell us if you used genkernel or not and show us your bootloader configuration

[TomV]

I haven't used genkernel, I installed it manually. Haven't discovered the advantage of genkernel yet...

So, the grub.conf file :