[solved]initrd problems

[hawking]

I have made an initramfs image following the guide http://gentoo-wiki.com/TinyGentoo and I've put the kernel and the image to my usb-device and installed grub on it.The kernel (vmlinuz) and initramfs image are on the top directory of /dev/sda1. I have tried booting to it but I couldn't .. here's what I've tried

First I've put this in menu.lst as described in that url:

kernel /vmlinuz init=/sbin/init
initrd /initramfs-image

The error I got was : Failed to execute /sbin/init.

I checked if /sbin/init was missing and tried to execute it from the Gentoo on my harddrive and it worked. So then I tried :

kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 init=/sbin/init
initrd /initramfs-image

This time I got : UDF-Fs no partitions found.Unable to mount rot fs on unknown block (1,0)

I also tried the same with /linuxrc .. same results.

I'm rather confused and this is my first time dealing with initrd stuff.I'll be happy if someone can help me out.

Regards,
Ali Polatel

[didymos]

Have you set the real_root in GRUB?
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Thomas S. Howard

[siongui]

kernel executes /init instead of /sbin/init.
You should make symlink to /init.

cd /tinygentoo
#if you are using /linuxrc
ln -s linuxrc init
#if you have no /linuxrc
ln -s sbin/init init

Please see the following link.
http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2004-June/003729.html

[hawking]