Colin, I would suggest you change your mailer to use no more than 80 columns... 76 or so seems standard.
As for the exact reason why your kernel panicked, I can't say. However, IU have *never* needed to specify init=anything. It could just be me.,. :) but, most people seem to boot their kernel with lines more like: root=/dev/fd0 if you want to use the floppy for your root filesystem. Of course, I ahven't been through your steps, but .. it just seems to me that the init= bit isn't quite right. <shrug> On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 02:12:47AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a friend who has only win98 installed on her computer. she would > like linux instead, but the 2.0 and 2.2 kernels do not have support for > her hard drive controller (the stock debian install from bootable CD > "cannot find any devices" on which to install). so, i compiled her a > 2.3.14 kernel, which I tested out on my own computer. It boots perfectly > (or as near as can be expected, considering it wasn't built for my > hardware...) I used rawrite from her windows box to write resc1440.bin > (from slink, by the way) to a disk. i then copied the bzImage from the new > kernel onto the disk, renamed it to "linux", and ran ./rdev.sh. I wasn't > sure if I needed the drivers floppy, so I made one anyways. > > I inserted the disk into her computer and rebooted... pressed enter, and > it loaded the kernel fine, and went through all the hardware-detection > stuff without error. However, once it was done with that, I got a "Kernel > panic: could not find init. Try passing the init= option to the kernel". > > I am totally at a loss for what I should be doing here... I tried > init=/dev/ram, init=/dev/ram0, init=/dev/hdc (with CD in drive), > init=/dev/hda, init=/dev/hda1, and even init=/dev/fd0. Does anyone have > any ideas on what I can do to fix this error? (By the way, it's not > specific to her computer, I get the same error when trying the disk on two > other computers.) > > I also made sure to enable ramdisk, initrd, elf executables, minixfs, > ext2fs, msdosfs, vfatfs, iso9660fs, and loopback devices support in the > new kernel. > > Help, anyone? > > Colin McMillen -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1: 1 hour, 5 minutes without a > reboot... The revolution will be complete when the operating system is > perfect. (www.debian.org, www.enlightenment.org, www.opensource.org) > > > -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] > < /dev/null -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
