On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, John C. Tull wrote:

> I have installed 8.2b2 on a 7300 with a G3 upgrade card and on a 
> PowerComputing 7200-based clone with a G3 upgrade. On both machines, 
> switching bootX over to the vmlinuz-2.4.18-6mdk kernel, using the  
> initrd-2.4.18-6mdk.img in options, setting "root=/dev/sdb5", and booting 
> up results in "Kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init= option..."
> 

My bad - try the initrd in my web space:

http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict

I left out sd_mod =(


> I further attempted to get a working kernel by using a YellowDog Linux 
> kernel to get me up and running (sans modules). From there, I installed 
> the kernel source and libncurses-devel from Cooker Disk 2. I chose to 
> include oldworld scsi support in the kernel rather than as modules (mesh 
> and mac53c94). The make dep went fine, but (after make clean) make 
> vmlinux fails to complete due to an error 2. Not surprisingly make 
> modules dies as well. Could there be problems in the kernel source rpm?
> 

make mrproper           <--- don't try to skip this
make menuconfig
make dep
make vmlinux
make modules
make modules_install
installkernel KERNEL_VERSION vmlinux System.map


Stew Benedict

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